A warm welcome to you from Shameema and I! Our new website, http://www.leavenogirlbehind.org/, is the manifestation of what our movement Leave No Girl Behind stands for and what it means to us. Apart from working on our website and our projects (The HELP-HER-HELP-HERSELF Project and the Leadership Program and Worldwide Network for Girls), we’ve just completed the writing process of our book, also titled Leave No Girl Behind.
Whenever I look at the contents page of the manuscript, excitement bubbles up within me. It’s not because I’m proud of the book that Shameema and I have created, although I am definitely incredibly proud of it. I feel excited because I see how many women, men and children there are who have contributed their words to our book. Each person’s words will impact a girl somewhere to achieve her dreams, or inspire someone to do something to empower girls. Although the book is not published yet and we are hoping, praying and visualising that we will be accepted by a great mainstream publisher (hopefully Hay House), there is a part of us that knows that, no matter what, this powerful message will go out in the way it was intended to and it will transform the world.
In a sacred way all of us, the contributors to this special book, have joined hands to support the cause of girls’ empowerment, using our collective energy to inspire change in a big way. And that, I think, is the magic of the whole book. Authors, singers/songwriters, activists, pilots, editors of magazines, women who are in some ways ambassadors for their countries, mothers, fathers, teenagers, and so many others have decided to share in this endeavor to make the world a better place. Hope lives, courage stands strong, and faith outweighs cynicism. We’re building a better future for girls (and for the world population that they will literally one day give birth to) and the thought is both too enormous for words and humbling at the same time.
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