11/10/2025
"The decisions we make for our girls today determine the caliber of women they will become tomorrow.”
Today, on International Day of the Girl, I reflect not only as an advocate and publisher but also as someone who has spoken out publicly — as I did in my article “Int’l Day of the Girl Child: Rewriting the Future of the Nigerian Girl Through Education” in Guardian Woman — that “girls already have voices; what they often lack is the microphone.”
👉 Read here: guardian.ng/guardian-woman/intl-day-of-the-girl-child-rewriting-future-of-the-nigerian-girl-through-education
That truth — that every girl has a voice — is central to my advocacy. What I said there resonates still: our responsibility is not simply to talk about girls but to talk with them, to build responsive platforms so their voices shape policy, community decisions, and systems that affect their lives.
So today, I say again:
🌸 When we invest in her education — formal, digital, and life skills — we are deciding she deserves the chance to lead, to imagine, to change.
🌸 When we protect her from harm or discrimination, we are deciding her dignity matters — not as a favour but as a right.
🌸 When we listen — not just hear — to her ideas and amplify them, we are choosing to let her voice guide, not just be tokenised.
🌸 When we break down the barriers that silence her — social norms, poverty, policy gaps — we are deciding she will lead us forward.
Because girls are not future leaders in waiting — they are leaders already in the making, especially in times of crisis. They innovate, resist, adapt, and demand justice. They do not wait.
That’s why including them in decision-making is not optional — it is essential.
I recommit today — as Founder of Prudent Women, as Author, and as Mentor — to keep raising the microphone, to keep making space, and to keep turning their words into action.
For every decision we make today for a girl is a seed planted for the caliber of woman she becomes — and the world she will help shape.
Let’s act boldly, listen deeply, and build systems where girl voices matter, not just in words, but in deeds.
Msurshima Comfort Chenge
Founder,
Prudent Women Advancement And Advocacy Foundation | Author | Publisher
www.msurshimachenge.com
www.prudentwomen.org
