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Jill has worked in O’Herlihy Communications for the past 16 years looking after the PR needs of everything from charities to chickens! She has two wonderful children; her daughter is 5 and a half and her son is nearly three. She lives just outside Greystones in Co Wicklow with her children and husband of nearly [...]
Continue ReadingKathryn Ryan works for Dublin City BID as Membership and Communications Manager. Kathryn has been instrumental in developing the Dublintown.ie website, the Creative Quarter area brand and also organises the Dublin Fashion Festival on an annual basis. Although born and raised in Cork, she is extremely passionate about all things Dublin and refers to it [...]
Continue ReadingGeraldine Kelly joined the Plan Ireland Board in 2008 and has served both as a member of the Marketing Sub-Committee and the Strategic Planning Committee. She is very committed to Sustainable Child Centric Community Development, has a good understanding of the adverse impacts of Climate Change and is leveraging her business experience to support Plan’s [...]
Continue ReadingA committed eco-fashion designer, dedicated to sustainability in design and construction, Carrie Ann Moran is Creative Director with award winning Rediscover Fashion – Irelands Green Fashion Label. Following completion of a Law degree, Carrie Ann re-directed her focus to sustainable fashion, not wanting to follow suit but lead the way in making a change within [...]
Continue ReadingTina Murphy is the founder of Run with Tina http://runwithtina.com/ a fast growing Irish company that inspires women to improve their lifestyles through their ‘Running Made Easy’ courses aimed at complete beginners. Since 2009, over 700 women have completed the programme. Tina is regularly featured in the media and contributes to several blogs, including her own. Because [...]
Continue ReadingHeidi Higgins graduated from NCAD in 2008. Just under one year later she proudly introduced her own label to the Irish market in May 2009. Heidi presents a confident contemporary label that is sensitive to emerging trends - with canny detailing that gives a sage nod to the catwalk while remaining fearless in pursuit of [...]
Continue ReadingLeanne Woodfull is a fashion and beauty blogger from Dublin. Leanne runs one of Ireland’s most popular blogs THUNDER + THREADS, and has been featured on everything from Asos, MTV Style, The Last Magazine and more! Because I am a Girl I ask…why are women still oppressed in places such as the work place, in [...]
Continue ReadingFounder of the not-for-profit organisation Kanchi and its pioneering social franchise The Ability Awards, serial social entrepreneur Caroline Casey is driving societal change aimed at nothing less than a complete reframing of disability. Central to her and Kanchi’s approach is the idea that as a powerful, all-pervasive influence in society, business can lead this change [...]
Continue ReadingMary Lawlor has a background of over 35 years experience in human rights. She set up Front Line Defenders - the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders - in 2001. Front Line Defenders concentrates all its activities on human rights defenders at risk who work non-violently for the rights of others as [...]
Continue ReadingAn independent consumer expert, Tina Leonard is Ireland’s foremost consumer champion. She dispenses consumer advice and information weekly via her Smart Consumer column in the Irish Independent and on RTE Radio 1’s Today with Pat Kenny programme, and has delivered a consumer segment on RTE’s Four Live (and formerly The Afternoon Show) since 2005. A [...]
Continue ReadingSorcha Heron currently works in Newstalk 106-108fm as acting deputy station editor. She has been working in radio for the past 7 years. After graduating from UCD with a degree in History and Politics, she travelled to Japan to teach English for 3 years. The first word she learnt in Japanese was ‘gokiburi’ which means [...]
Continue ReadingJennie is co-creator of What Will I Wear Today, an Irish fashion website that tackles fashion and lifestyle trends in a cheeky and light-hearted manner. The energetic pace and tone of the site has cemented WWIWT as one of Ireland’s most loved websites and international press has taken note. WWIWT won the European Best Blogger Competition with ONLY Jeans, been [...]
Continue ReadingNATALIEBCOLEMAN studied fashion at Limerick School of Art & Design and on the MA course at Central St. Martins, London. She has worked in Industry for such fashion labels as threeASFOUR, New York and Ragna Frodadottir, textile designer in Iceland before establishing her own Womenswear label in 2010 which has now expanded to Silk Scarves, [...]
Continue ReadingNicola Byrne is CEO & founder of 11890 & Stenics Media. She is also a board member of Ireland US Council, on Fingal County Enterprise Board evaluation committee and a board member British Irish Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, Nicola is Chairperson of the Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards 2012, Advisory Board Member of Ryan Academy for [...]
Continue ReadingNatasha Duffy is festival coordinator for the Spirit of Folk Festival, a three-day, family friendly festival running from 21st - 23rd September in Dunderry Park, Co Meath. Shortlisted in 2011 for ‘Best New Festival’ in the European Festival awards, Spirit of Folk returns next weekend with a unique slant on the traditional Irish camping festival. The [...]
Continue ReadingRóise Goan is the Director of Dublin Fringe Festival. Dublin Fringe Festival (DFF) is a curated multi-disciplinary festival and year-round organisation focusing on new and innovative approaches to the arts. DFF supports the development and presentation of new work by Irish and international artists of vision, nurturing artistic ambition and excellence across a range of art forms. [...]
Continue ReadingMany people assume I’m a girlie girl yet I love to surprise people by doing things like sky-diving, trekking in glaciers and backpacking for 6 months with the bare minimum (well; 2 pairs of shoes; flipflops and hiking boots). An only girl with three brothers there was never any discrimination in our household regarding chores; [...]
Continue ReadingSarah Harte is Media & Communications Officer with Plan Ireland. Sarah went to DCU to study International Business & Languages (German and French) and spent her Erasmus year in northern Germany. In 2005, Sarah took up a marketing position in Tourism Ireland’s Brussels office, a highlight (!) being an appearance on the Belgian equivalent of MTV for St Patrick’s Day and [...]
Continue ReadingA northside girl through & true, Trish Fallon’s idol has always been her big sis Jules, who, to Trish, was one of the most beautiful models/people in Ireland when she was growing up. Jules opened the doors of 1st Option Models Management & Production in 1997 and 6 months in asked Trish to join her team. Trish was over the moon [...]
Continue ReadingSiobhan Ryan is a Meteorologist with Met Eireann, and has been forecasting since 2006. Before this she worked both in Dublin Airport and Met Eireann Head Quarters as a Meteorological Officer. Since August 2010 she has appeared on our screens come rain or shine as part of RTE’s Weather Team. Born in Dublin, she studied [...]
Continue ReadingHaving worked in event management for years Suzanne Murray bowed out of the working world to travel and have her kids - Daniel and Laura. She spent 7 years in Barcelona enjoying the sunshine, the cultural differences and struggling to learn the language. Now back in Ireland, and getting used to carrying an umbrella again, she [...]
Continue ReadingElsa Jones is a Nutritional Therapist and Health Journalist. Elsa runs a private practice in Dublin where she offers one-to-one consultations to treat individual health concerns. Elsa has recently teamed up with Dubliner Cheese to launch their new-look Dubliner Cheese light. Elsa also works hard to bring health issues to Irish consciousness in her capacity [...]
Continue ReadingClaire Finnan is Managing Director of Huggy Bloom Enterprises Ltd, an event and exhibition Management Company. Together with her business partner Jennifer Shaw, the girls are the brains behind the hugely successful Pregnancy & Baby Fair. Claire and Jennifer first came to national attention on Dragons Den, where they went down in history as the [...]
Continue ReadingJennifer Shaw is Managing Director of Huggy Bloom Enterprises Ltd, an event and exhibition Management Company. Together with her business partner Claire Finnan, the girls are the brains behind the hugely successful Pregnancy & Baby Fair. Jennifer and Claire first came to national attention on Dragons Den, where they went down in history as the [...]
Continue ReadingSheila O’Flanagan is an international bestselling author of sixteen novels and 3 short story collections. Her novels, including All For You, Stand By Me and Suddenly Single, have been translated into over twenty languages. The former financial services executive has won the Irish Tatler Woman of the Year for Literature award and currently is a director of [...]
Continue ReadingPatricia Murray is Organisational Psychologist at the Health and Safety Authority, where she manages the agency’s mental health at work programme nationally. This means developing and promoting tools – Codes of Practice, reports, research and guidance - to be used within Irish organisations to promote healthier and safer workplaces and hopefully happier and higher performing people. [...]
Continue ReadingOrla Walsh is a Pop Artist and proud Mum to three girls. She is inspired by family life and the nostalgia of everyday items. Her first set of Ketchup bottles were bought by the Heinz HQ in Pittsburg. Her other images capture the emotional history of irish products. Her depictions of the iconic Irish brands [...]
Continue ReadingSharon Tinkler is the founder of the Stepping Out Dance company which provide dance and dance exercise classes in up to 100 venues around Ireland. Having been made redundant by Aer Lingus and being a seperated mother of a young son, Sharon started Stepping Out initially as a way she could spend time with her [...]
Continue ReadingBrenda Thoms is Marketing Manager for NIVEA in Ireland since 2001. She began working with Plan Ireland in 2011 and hopes to collaborate on further projects in 2012. Previously, she ran her own communications company followed by a Marketing role in Pepsico Ireland. She studied modern languages in Trinity College and also completed a Business [...]
Continue ReadingJane Gilheaney Barry is a writer, pr and lifestyle blogger at www.thatcuriousloveofgreen.com Between 2000 and 2010 Jane established and ran the Shaylyn Traditional Performing Arts Centre, Shaylyn Irish Dance Company and Gilheaney PR Consulting from her base in Ballinamore, Co Leitrim. The aim of the Shaylyn Group was to generate social, cultural and economic development [...]
Continue ReadingAnnabella Forbes is the Chief Chick of Bed&Fed, a company she started 2 years ago when she was just 24. Annabella is an actress (shorts and features) and short-film maker (music and corporate videos as well as comedy sketches). She also does various creative and freelance work for other companies. Annabella plays a lot of music and hopes [...]
Continue ReadingFounding Director and Programmer of Ireland’s Festival of World Cultures (’00-’10), Jody Ackland is a freelance festival and events producer and programmer specialising in world-wide music and traditional arts. Originally from England, Jody has been living in Dublin for over 20 years working in the music, arts and community development sectors. As the Company Director [...]
Continue ReadingGoogle staffers tell us their thoughts on being girls (and boys!) and why it’s so important that women and girls across the world are empowered. The project was undertaken by Google staff as part of Google Serve, a companywide project that started in 2008, which has now grown into an annual tradition. Thousands of “Googlers” [...]
Continue ReadingDarryl Gibney is an Agency Sales Account Manager for Associated Newspapers Ireland Ltd by day and runs her own yoga classes under the name ‘Dublin Yogabody’ at The South William Space, 27 South William St by night. Darryl’s first yoga class in 2001 was a life changing moment and it wasn’t long before she fell [...]
Continue ReadingMarion Mathews is the owner of the bridal shop The White Room as well as a new venture in space-saving children’s furniture, “Ann & Barry”, and wholesale agent in the UK and Ireland for Spanish bridal designer Jesus Peiro. She is also the mother of two boys Ronan, 3 and Aonghus, 2. Married to Paddy Mathews, [...]
Continue ReadingMo Kelly is a Dublin based Artist and DJ, she is a well know face behind the decks in the capital, across the country and internationally, with gigs from Full Moon parties in Thailand, music festivals in India, residencies in Dubai to clubs across London and even combining art and DJing in France for ArtMosh. Mo regularly spins [...]
Continue ReadingAlex Donald has been a DJ for many years playing in clubs, bars and festivals across Ireland, in addition to numerous gigs in London and even a stint in Dubai. Alex also runs the blog Alex Donald’s Multiverse, which has been in existence for almost two years and covers a multitude of subjects including fashion, [...]
Continue ReadingMichelle Sadlier is an experienced style social media player, working from her dual base of London and Dublin. She is a media, marketing and communications graduate and immersed in the online global conversation influencing fashion. With over 10 years experience, her career to date includes working with some of Ireland’s most talented and inspirational entrepreneurs [...]
Continue ReadingAnna Ryan is a strategic planner at Chemistry ad agency in Dublin. She has lived and worked in Dublin, Paris and Vancouver and worked on campaigns for Barnardos, HeadWay and BrainTrust North America. She’s also part of the team involved with New York based charity One Home Many Hopes which finds, rescues, houses, loves and [...]
Continue ReadingSelf-confessed fashion-addict, Angela Scanlon, has a high profile across all facets of the media. She is a stylist and fashion writer for multiple home-grown and international publications including Grazia, Tatler and The Sunday Times STYLE Magazine; a presenter and reporter for the national broadcast network, RTE, and a regular contributor to TV3; a fashion commentator [...]
Continue ReadingAnn O’Dea is a founder-director of Whitespace Publishing Group and Siliconrepublic.com, and is Editor-in-chief of Business & Leadership, Ireland’s online resource for business and management news. She is also editor of Irish Director magazine. Originally a Master’s graduate in Arts, Ann spent many years in France, and lectured at both the Law and Arts faculties [...]
Continue ReadingKellie Dalton is a promoter of all that is green. A self-confessed corporate responsibility and sustainability geek, Kellie works in many ways to highlight environmental and social issues in business; as a marketing executive with Business in the Community(Corporate Responsibility advisory service), as co-founder of Re-dress: ethical fashion initiative and as a PhD researcher at [...]
Continue ReadingDunja Lugaric is PA to the CEO of Ireland’s leading experience marketing agency, Modern Green. Hailing from Zagreb, Croatia, she left her native country at 18 to follow her dream of living abroad. First stop was Austria where she graduated with a bachelors degree in Business Consultancy, followed by spending the last 4 years living in Dublin. [...]
Continue ReadingRachel Prendiville is a Dublin based Designer. In 2006, Rachel opened her own company in the Media Cube of Dun Laoghaire (IADT). In 2007, Rachel co founded Ampersand Design Studio an award winning, Dublin based studio which is a team of highly motivated creatives who believe in the power of visual communication and good design. [...]
Continue ReadingNathalie is a journalist who, after working for the BBC and setting up the Prison Radio Outreach Project in a London men’s prison for Media for Development, chose to start On Road Media in 2005 - a social enterprise promoting citizen journalism. On Road Media delivers social media training to marginalised groups and organisations throughout the [...]
Continue ReadingLiv Morgan is Staff Editor/Writer with WMB (Women Mean Business) Magazine. She has a BA in Journalism from Dublin City University and spent time studying in Sydney, Australia. Prior to WMB, Liv was a freelance writer contributing to other business and specialist titles. Four and a half years ago she came to find her true [...]
Continue ReadingLoretta Dignam is the Marketing Director with Jacob Fruitfield. She is a marketing professional with over 25 years experience gained in the food & drink industry, working with a number of blue chip, multinational companies, in the UK, Sweden and Ireland. She previously held positions as Head of Consumer Communications at Diageo Ireland, Marketing [...]
Continue ReadingIn 1987 Lulu O’Sullivan set up her a gifts delivery company (originally called Inter Teddy). By 1996 GiftsDirect.com was an early adapter to the Internet and one of Ireland’s first online transactional websites. The company is now at the forefront of the online gift delivery business, with a strong presence not just in Ireland but [...]
Continue ReadingEmma Kennedy is personal finance correspondent with The Sunday Business Post. The journalist comes from Wicklow, but now lives in Dublin. She has a BSc in Economics & Finance from UCD and an MA in Journalism from DCU. She enjoys travel, sport and new challenges. She has taken part in volunteer projects in South Africa [...]
Continue ReadingCaroline Curran is Communications Manager for Coca-Cola HBC Ireland Ltd where she is responsible for internal communications and managing corporate social responsibility programmes such as the Coca- Cola Designated Driver campaign, the Coca-Cola Cinemagic Festival and Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of the Clean Coast programme. Caroline joined Coca-Cola HBC Ireland in 2007. Prior to this, Caroline worked for seven years in the Public Affairs [...]
Continue ReadingMargaret Gilsenan is a founding partner of Boys and Girls, a communications company that celebrated its first birthday at the end of 2010 after a very successful first year in business. Margaret is a director of Plan Ireland, sponsoring children in Mali and Indonesia and had the pleasure of meeting her Malian sponsored child during [...]
Continue ReadingTina Roche was appointed Chief Executive of The Foundation for Investing in Communities in January 2000. She established two organisations - Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) and The Community Foundation for Ireland. Tina has a MBA from IMI/Fordham and previous to her present role she worked for The National Gallery as Head of Development. [...]
Continue ReadingMaura McHugh runs the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild website and blog, and edits its fortnightly electronic newsletter. She also writes, and her short stories and poetry have appeared in markets in the USA and the UK. A script written by her has been made into a short film. She has been on the juries [...]
Continue ReadingMadeleine Keane was born in Dublin and is educated at UCD and Trinity. She is Literary Editor of the Sunday Independent where she has worked since 1988 and writes about books, theatre and travel. She presented the books programme ‘First Edition’, has written a non-fiction careers guide for teenagers, and helped establish the ‘Irish Book [...]
Continue ReadingLinda de Courcy is a Dublin girl who gets to work for herself as a Nutritional Therapist and Pilates Instructor. Always having had an interest in food and how it affects our health, at 7 she persuaded her dad to stop taking sugar in his tea!! As an adult she became increasingly frustrated at what [...]
Continue ReadingDeirdre Kennedy is Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs manager at IBM Ireland, where she is responsible for IBM’s Corporate Responsibility initiatives. She manages IBM’s education programmes, with particular focus on promoting science, technology, engineering and maths with girls; programmes with not-for-profit organisations and their extensive volunteering programme. Deirdre has been with IBM since 1994, working [...]
Continue ReadingDil Wickremasinghe is a Social Entrepreneur and Media Activist whose vision is to create an inclusive and equal Ireland. She is Managing Director of Diversity & Equality Works – established in 2006 and specializes in delivering diversity, disability and equality training and consultancy services to the private, public and voluntary sector. Dil is also [...]
Continue ReadingShiera O’Brien runs her own training company, Zenith Training and Development. Her vision is to help companies enjoy business more through a combination of training sessions that get people thinking differently about how they do what they do. “If it’s not working, why are you still doing it?” she asks. Through higher levels of awareness, [...]
Continue ReadingBecause I am a Girl I ask… myself to be sensitive to others.She is currently directing a theatrical production of A Christmas Pageant to be performed in Cork and Kinsale. Yvonne is also collaborating on a dance project, designing workshops for older people, and directing and producing film with Rebelz Picturz. Because I am a [...]
Continue ReadingAnna Aparicio is Ireland’s first NLP/NHR Specialist Coach and a Self-image & Confidence Expert. She uses Neuro-linguistic Programming and Neuro-hypnotic Repatterning to help boost your confidence and motivation, lose weight, get rid of fears etc. Since Anna’s humble beginnings in a small town in northern Spain, she has come a long way. An “A” student [...]
Continue ReadingCarol Ann Casey is Managing Director of CA Consulting Limited (www.caconsulting.ie), a human resource compliance business. Her focus is on HR auditing and best practice HR management as well as on dispute investigation and resolution. She is currently a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, an ambassador of the Dublin Chamber of [...]
Continue ReadingOrla Strumble is Head of Marketing for the Irish Greyhound Board, who she has worked with for over five years. Because I am a Girl I ask… my friends for advice – no matter how old I get I still value their opinions – some of whom I have been friends with since childhood. It [...]
Continue ReadingFiona Roche, 27 and a graduate from DCU, BSc in Financial and Actuarial Mathematics. She works as an ETF trader for a trading firm in Dublin called Susquehanna International Group, and have been there for 6 years. In her spare time she does a bit of running, and she completed her first marathon in Dublin [...]
Continue ReadingJulia Lynes is 29 years of age and lives in Cork. She has a Degree in European Studies from UCC and for the past 6 years has run her own business EazyCork & EazyDublin providing flexible accommodation solutions in both cities. She is the incoming President of Network Cork which is a networking group for [...]
Continue ReadingMary Davis is Managing Director of Special Olympics Europe/Eurasia. She is the former CEO of Special Olympics Ireland and prior to that she served as Chief Executive Officer for the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games. Currently she serves on many committees and boards, established a number of voluntary organisations and was appointed by the [...]
Continue ReadingEdel Clancy is Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs for Musgrave Group. Prior to joining Musgrave in 2006, Edel was global head of internal communication for Lucent Technologies based in the UK. A native of Limerick, Edel was educated in Ireland, the United States and Belgium where she later spent six years as a European [...]
Continue ReadingNote from Plan Ireland: Since this blog was first posted, Kate Fitzgerald has sadly passed away. Kate’s passion, dedication and creativity shine through her own words in the blog. We remember Kate through these words; her hopes for strength through adversity, her gratefulness for opportunities she had been given, her endless dreaming, unselfish loving and [...]
Continue ReadingDee O’Brien is a marketing consultant. Having worked for start-ups, SME’s, PLC’s to Global & not-for-profit organizations for 12 years, she set up DO Marketing (www.domarketing.ie) in 2007 providing straightforward marketing expertise from short term assignments, once off events and marketing campaigns, working together with some of the best agencies and freelance talents in Dublin. [...]
Continue ReadingNiamh Hennessy is a business journalist with the Irish Examiner. She has been working with the Irish Examiner for the last five years and has also worked as Chief Reporter with the Irish Post in London. She has a degree in Government and Public Policy from UCC and spent time working at an intern in [...]
Continue ReadingNicola Cooke is 30 years old, from Galway. She went to college in UL & DCU and has a MA in Journalism. Nicola has worked as a News Reporter at the Sunday Business Post for almost five years - her fourth newspaper. In 2009 the young writer won Transport Journalist of the Year as the first [...]
Continue Readinghas worked as a copywriter, freelance journalist and is an award-winning short story writer. Henrietta McKervey Her design for living is pretty much summed up by the Morecambe & Wise song ‘Bring Me Sunshine’. Because I am a Girl I ask… that no woman ever waste her vote. It was hard-enough won. Because I am [...]
Continue ReadingAngharad Williams is a Welsh-Irish journalist based in Dublin and is the Web Content Manager of Ireland’s Premier Fashion and Beauty website, iVenus.com. Born to an Irish mother and Welsh father she is a fluent Welsh speaker. She spent three years in London working as a music journalist before heading to Dublin to return to [...]
Continue ReadingHelen Soraghan Dwyer is a Dublin based writer. She is Chairperson of the Irish Writers’ Union. Helen was recently appointed a director on the board of Dublin South FM Community Radio Station. She produces and presents a weekly radio arts programme, Rhyme & Reason, for Dublin South FM. Her poetry and prose have been published [...]
Continue ReadingDara McClatchie is a producer working and living in Dublin and is MD of Big Fish Productions. She studied film at the DIT and recently completed an MA in International Relations in her spare time. She has worked all over the world filming for and with clients on all five continents. She [...]
Continue ReadingMelanie O’Sullivan is the Sales & Marketing Manager at Radio Kerry. She has been with the station since 1995. As well as the commercial remit of Radio Kerry Melanie has been involved in the set up of two Radio Kerry fundraising organisations; the Kerry Christmas Appeal & the Radio Kerry Community Fund. [...]
Continue ReadingAisling Kennedy is the Staff Editor of Woman’s Way magazine and writes many regular features for the magazine from Consumer and Travel issues to Makeovers and Cover interviews. Along with being one of the main features writers she’s also the Picture Editor of the magazine. Aisling travelled to Haiti in April this [...]
Continue ReadingMary White is an Irish Green Party politician. She was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2007 general election making her the first female TD elected for the Green party and for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency. White was born in County Wicklow, educated at the Ursuline Convent, Waterford and Trinity College, Dublin. On [...]
Continue ReadingGina Kelly has been in PR and Communications for six years, having worked for some of Ireland’s best known brands including Meteor and currently Aer Arann. Over the course of her career she has been involved with many Irish charities, working to promote their mission and brand. She believes passionately in the power of communication, and believes that [...]
Continue ReadingÁine Toner is editor of Woman’s Way magazine. When she’s not watching the soaps for WW and Ireland AM, she indulges in her pastimes of books and handbags in equal measure. Here, she talks equality, education… and wedding cake. Because I am a Girl I ask… for a safe and secure health system that would [...]
Continue ReadingDoreen O’ Mahony is a PR Consultant based in Cork but originally from West Cork. Having three sisters and having gone to boarding school in Rosscarbery, West Cork, she is well placed to understand the role of women in society. Doreen is delighted to be a guest blogger on the Because I am a Girl [...]
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to you to be a girl
I have a much higher chance of making headline news - as a victim of rape, assault or murder. But because I am a girl I have the innate strength to carry on challenging the threats to my freedom.
I rise to the challenge, and do the unexpected. I raise my voice so that I can always be heard. I push myself even when the little voices in my head are saying, sure you dont belong here, who do you think you are. I struggle on and dont alllow society to to label or box me because of the sex I am, the colour of my skin, my sexuality, my spiritual beliefs. I am, and I will.
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