write essay on village girl's dream....in 100 words..
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Imagine being born and brought up in a very remote village on the slopes of Mount Kenya, a very cold and sparsely populated part of Kenya. You develop a love for reading and writing and by the age of 11 years you discover you a good story teller and have a talent in writing. Bear in mind, in your village nobody knows or has ever come across a writer, all of you only see their names on book covers. How do you rise and live up to your dream of becoming a great author and transforming lives through your writing?
This was I in the year 1998. I have always been an avid reader and my love for story telling goes back to my years as a primary school pupil. My English language teacher acknowledged the talent I had and always encouraged me to perfect the art of writing compositions. But her encouragement alone was not enough and I kept dreaming of getting my stories published one day. By the time I joined High School, my life revolved around reading; story books, novels and the dictionary. My father kept a few old copies of Readers Digest Magazine which I would read over and over again.
I wrote my first short story titled Disability is not Inability while in Form 2. This is a story meant to encourage every child that they have potential and that if they have the will power, they can achieve anything in life. However, plunging into the world of getting published, as I came to find out, was not easy for I had no idea on how to go about getting my story published. It was then I remembered my favorite book in Primary School, “Writing School Compositions” and felt this great conviction within me that I had to meet the Author who had inspired me so much.
I requested my parents to find out any information he could get about the author Mr. Mutahi Miricho and arrange a meeting between him and I. After two years of diligent search, my Late Father Moses, found the Author. By this time I had already completed High School and I finally got to meet Mr. Mutahi Miricho, seeking for his guidance into the publishing world. I had already made up my mind that I wanted to write stories targeting children and youth and women in order to transform mindset from the things they think they can’t achieve to actually achieving them.
Through his mentorship for the last 11 years, I have since authored 6 educational books focusing on Disability, HIV/AIDs, teenage pregnancies etc. 5 of these books have since been approved for use in schools across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Ghana by the relevant Curriculum Development Centers, with my poetry against Gender Based Violence having been published on various online platforms.
Looking back at my life, 18 years ago, I was just a village girl with a dream. I had only 2 options; to continue dreaming or to wake up and chase my dream. I often think about millions of young children living in poverty; children who have dreams that could liberate them from the yoke of poverty to self-reliance but unfortunately lack role models or mentors whom they can look up to for advice.
For this reason, I founded Literature Africa Foundation, an organization that advances access to education and employment opportunities for vulnerable young people living in rural and urban informal settlements in Kenya through a long-term holistic approach which includes academic and literacy support, enrichment training and mentorship. I connect children and youths to role models and mentors because I am a product of mentorship and I know the importance of having someone to look up to for guidance.
I am currently engaging children aged between 6 years and 15 years from Korogocho slums in Nairobi through The ILead Program which sensitizes them on the importance of education in relation to poverty alleviation and supplements academic learning by among other things, mentoring them on life skills, self-awareness, education, talent & leadership.
I got empowered through mentorship; it is my time to pay it forward.
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1)there was a girl
2)he always wanted to go in his village
3) one day