in 2022, michelle obama, amal clooney and melinda french gates came together to announce a collaboration with the aim of ending child marriage. we ve been invited to their first field trip together, and they ve come to ludzi secondary school in malawi. when i was your age, there were people in my community that didn t think a girl like me, who didn t have money or wealth or connections, could do the things that i did. i even had my second form teacher tell me that i shouldn t apply to the colleges i applied to because she didn t think i could get in. so i ignored herand i applied to princeton. i got in and i went to law school and became a lawyer. and i ve worked at a university, i ve run an ngo, i ve done all sorts of things. so i know that there are so many girls like all of us all over the world where people are underestimating them. they re telling us what we can t do. and i refuse. you know, i see my daughters in those girls. you know, we tend to think that poverty and p
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