A picture can say a thousand words.
Looking through a new UNICEF photo essay on the life cycle of girls, I couldn’t help but begin to think about the little girl from Haiti staring back at me through the screen. “Will she survive and thrive? Will her life be shaped primarily by gender discrimination or by the progress girls and women have made over the last century?”
After having spent part of last year in the Dominican Republic, I remember all the visits I made to the campo to visit a group of Haitian girls I played soccer with on the weekends. Their families had come to DR to look for work and better opportunities for their children…and some of them had found it. One of my Haitian soccer friends, Milanda, had won a scholarship from a Dominican university to study medicine—a clear example, to me, of some of the progress that has been made for women, regardless of race, in the Dominican Republic. And yet, there are plenty of stories and plenty of pictures that continue to show us the steps that still need to taken. - Johanna
Click here to view “The life cycle of girls: Early childhood”
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