CHARGED – Change Her Attitude
Revolutionize Girls Empowerment and Development is on to give that girl at the grassroots
a chance to see beyond the obstacles she sees and rise and pursue her dream. In this project, we are imploring the girl
child to accept and face the reality of life; to appreciate what they are and
work towards bettering their own life. We are up to invite the world and the
girl child to carefully and correctly analyze some of the campaign philosophies
by the feminists that the world is a soft place or the world should be made a
free sail-through environment and easy-life zone for the girl child. Some of
these campaigns are more of illusions, more theoretical, easy said than done
and not sustainable in real life especially our context and unfortunately the girl
child keeps on banking on these and end up disillusioned.
We are therefore encouraging the
girls to remain home and help their mothers do the domestic work or use the
plentiful land still at their disposal to plant something and out of it,
something good can be harvested. We are saying our young girls should accept to
study where their parents can afford instead of running away from the truth of
life, taking refuge in town as housemaids and roadside restaurant attendants in
town suburbs, selling themselves into slavery at that tender age. We are
telling the girls who are following the track of education to stop sleeping and
work hard if their dream of soft and easy life must come true. The free 1.5
point of the affirmative action cannot take them anywhere. If Law requires 20
points, work for it, If Medicine needs 20, equally battle for it, or else you
can chose to relax and see if the 1.5 will earn you a apace at the lecture
rooms.
Read hard, score excellently
and don't waste time competing or struggling to equal the boys, like you always
misinterpret the meaning of equality. Compete with the reality of the world;
compete to meet the entry requirement for your dream career, compete to find
solutions to world problems, and compete to change the world to make it a
better place for your generation and the generations coming after yours. Don’t
study to pass like your brother, don’t let any man be your measuring parameter
such that where men have failed, you feel comfortable saying “if a whole man
can fail, who am i?” No! We are saying, rise to meet the demands of the world
not to do what men can do.
Here at Imani 1985 and our
sister initiative Theatre Technology House (
https://tthcraft.blogspot.ug/), we are
surrounded by a team of young ladies who did not bow down and worshiped ignorance;
they did not accept to be hoodwinked; they vowed to take the bull by its horn
and now they are relevant women contributing perfectly in their different
professional areas in the cooperate world. A good number are now family women,
some are mothers and all of them are living a modest life earning respect from
their agreements, the young and old because they don't mix issues; they do not
contradict education and their gender roles as mothers-great transmitters of
life and sources of happiness in a family. They are here CHARGED and ready to
go out there, meet that young girl, Change Her Attitude, and Revolutionize
Girls Empowerment and Development (CHARGED). And this is what the REACH 5K
GIRLS PROJECT IS ALL ABOUT.
In a brief meeting and team
reunion on Sunday, may 21st at the gardens, the production team have finally
agreed to run a series of progrmmes aimed at let go the highly kept
blockbuster. Preliminary activities were rolled out on the same day and runs up
to the d date which is yet to be scheduled. Just watch this space for updates. 
