Aug 15, 2022
So conversations like the one I had with Jessica Posner-Odede
are actually the reason that we came up with the Episode format of
‘Notes to Nono’ brought to you every Monday. It really opened my
eyes to how inequitable our world is today for young women and
girls all over the world.
Jessica is the CEO of Girl Effect, an organisation that uses the
power of media to unlock the power of girls. This organisation
genuinely tries to help girls and puts them in the very center of
the process to resolve a problem.
And by problem I do not only mean the big, atrocious things such as
girls not being allowed to go to school or being taken out of
school because they are forced to marry at age 11. I am also
referring to far more subtle things like how a lot of our
technology is far more male focused than it is female focused or
that a lot of provided health services out there claiming to help
young women & girls are actually not working because they are not
communicating or understanding the real problems at hand.
Jessica does a far better job in explaining these problems
summarised here in Notes to Nono but also in Episode 31 of Season
2.
Have a listen and spread the word if you can so all girls will have
the ability to negotiate for themselves everywhere in this
world.