Poetry – Girls' Globe

Yunah Buvmbwe, Zimbabwe

SayItForward.org — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:03:01 +0000

Yunah Buvmbwe is a blogger and a community activist for women's rights. She is also a volunteer for local organizations.

In this episode, Yunah discusses:

- experiences and observations that motivated her to begin writing poems about girls' rights when she was 12 years old…
- realizing that she could be a voice for girls and women who did not feel that they could speak out…
- what motivates her to continue writing about the challenges women and girls face…
- in college, learning about blogging, attending workshops, and creating her own personal blog, Today’s Truths—My Voice is My Purpose, What’s Yours?…
- writing for the Girls’ Globe platform…
- how reading about other women’s work in their communities helps keep her motivated…
- the importance of working to ensure that government policies are implemented, like the Education Amendment Act in her country…
- how writing helped her overcome shyness and build self-confidence…
- her connection with the women in her community, how their experiences inspire her writing, and the project she initiated to support women in addressing the real issues they face…
- her mother’s role in helping women in the community, too…
- how social media has helped her interact with other woman and see what they are doing in communities globally to advance women’s rights…
- the importance of creating safe spaces for women to share their ideas and their experiences…
- and why we all need to raise critical issues and challenge stereotypes that women face in our own communities.

3 Ways to Support Girls’ Education in Afghanistan

Aid Afghanistan For Education — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:46:04 +0000

Education is a powerful tool for transforming lives, especially for Afghan women and girls who have faced tremendous challenges. For many, education has become the key to unlocking their potential and breaking cycles of poverty.

As one Afghan student shared, "Education is our weapon against oppression. It opens doors to opportunities that we never thought were possible."

On this International Day of the Girl, we celebrate the strength, resilience, and pride of girls in Afghanistan—today and every day.

Pauline Juma, Kenya

SayItForward.org — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Pauline Juma is from Kajido, Kenya. She is a mother, a storyteller and the Director and Founder of Rebirth of A Queen.

In this episode, Pauline discusses founding Rebirth of A Queen, a safe-house that works to empower teenage survivors of sexual violence by giving them the opportunity to heal, to learn, and to pursue their dreams… being labeled a “rebel” as a girl… intergenerational trauma… growing up in poverty… her seven years of silence after surviving sexual violence and being threatened to tell no one about the assault… the process of healing, and how writing poetry helped her… mental health and resilience… her mother’s lessons about forgiveness, and her own understanding that forgiveness is a journey and a process… disconnecting forgiveness from religion… the healing power of writing encouraging letters to herself, especially to the former girl that she was at 16 and to the young woman she was at 23… learning to say “No” without feeling guilty when someone asks for help, and saying “Let me think about it” instead… and the importance of telling one’s own story.

Bans Off Our Bodies – A Poem for Women’s Liberation

Dr Preeti Shakya — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 10:37:27 +0000

They seek to curtail our reproductive freedom, strip pregnant women of reproductive agency, thwart pro-choice legislation, shut down abortion clinics, try to convince us that our bodies are not ours to keep. That our personhood and bodily autonomy are conditional.

Stand Up Poetry: “Young Women Speak About Femicide”

World YWCA — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:07:00 +0000

This is Suicide This is Genocide This is Homicide What then is Femicide? I can be killed because I am aa woman Hear Adaeze Muonyelu share her poem and read it today.

Depression

Fatima Raza — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 09:00:05 +0000

A poem by Fatima Raza for Girls' Globe.

Not Today

Fatima Raza — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:21:37 +0000

A poem by Fatima Raza for Girls' Globe.

I’ll Show You My Pain

Gabrielle Rocha Rios — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 11:00:50 +0000

A poem by Gabrielle Rocha Rios for Girls' Globe

She Chose to Be the Best Version of Herself

Fatima Raza — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:32:24 +0000

A poem by Fatima Raza for Girls' Globe.

An Ode to HER

Fatima Raza — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 13:49:10 +0000

A poem by Fatima Raza for Girls' Globe.