Dear World Leaders: Powerful message to world leaders at the Rise, Respond, Recover event 13 July 2021
They say you are on the menu if you are not seated at the table
Allow me to introduce myself
I am the girls in the pictures you commission of abject poverty
I know you might think it’s poetic
But I assure you our lives are not an aesthetic
Perhaps you didn’t know that I am the girl staying home from school because I don’t have pads
My future, they took that
I am the girl walking to school with a stomach heavier than my book bag
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