Martha Mphwele
AGE: 18
HOME: Mdzodzo village, Mangochi, Malawi
HOBBIES AND INTERESTS: I am the chairperson at my youth club, and also a trained peer educator. At our youth club we teach each other different things. We also talk with the parents to help them see the dangers of early marriages.
DREAM: I want to become a police officer because I want to change things in my community. The change I want is that girls should have the opportunity to go further with their education, and get good jobs.
Taona Kayiwe
AGE: 20
HOME: Secondary school dormitory, Salima, Malawi.
GOALS IN LIFE: I want to be a language teacher. My grandmother, she was an MP, so to me she was also my role model that I can also be a member of parliament and I can also be a teacher. Here in my community some women or men don’t know the importance of educating a girl child.
DREAM:I’d like to encourage my fellow girls to go to school and to be focus on what we are going to achieve in the future.