Viewpoint by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
The writer is UN Women Executive Director. She issued this statement for International Youth Day, 2019.
NEW YORK (IDN) – Sixteen-year old Gambian Jakomba Jabbie wants to be an aerospace engineer. A vocal advocate for girls’ education, she created a robotics team at school to show that girls can also participate in the area of technology, and “to make it a space for all of us”. She knows how important education is, especially to a girl.
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