"When I was a little girl, My grandmother said that, The stars were male and the sun was female. When you wake up in the middle of the night, And look up in the sky, You might think the stars shine brighter than the sun. It is just a diminutive thought among people of her generation But this is just because it is night and the territory belongs to the stars But when day comes, the sun shines brightest and the stars charge from the sky. The future is female. The future is of my gender. A world of organization. Don’t you think it will be a corrupt-free era? And I stand here today, Energized by the underlying truth That the Future is Female." — namonoesther2007, 19, student at our Ugandan partner arlingtonacademyofhope #ShesTheFirst #GirlsRights #TheFutureIsFemale