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Poverty is actually a big, a big issue.

— Faith Mwangi-Powell

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Be it conflicts, natural disasters, pandemic like COVID-19, or forced migration, almost always those who bear the brunt of these crisis are girls.

Climate change is a code red for girls at risk of child, early and forced marriage.

Nobody wants to say anything. Nobody wants to challenge the status quo.

All of us have PhDs. And what have you, we are all over the world changing the world, not because we are clever, is because somebody champion does.

I have a photograph of myself when I’m seven. I don’t have shoes on my feet. But I know I look at that girl and I know the dream she has, she wants everything.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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