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• 23 Jun, 2025

FROM BRIDE PRICE TO BRIGHT PROMISE

FROM BRIDE PRICE TO BRIGHT PROMISE

In many rural African communities, the girl child is a currency for survival, married off early, silenced before she can speak, mutilated before she can mature.

Cultural expectations bind girls to kitchens instead of classrooms. Gender inequality insists that a girl’s worth lies in her womb, not her wisdom. Female Genital Mutilation, the harmful practice in the name of “purity,” forces young girls to bear physical wounds and emotional scars that most definitely bleed into womanhood.

These are not metaphors; they are live experiences of millions of girls, and now, the silence is being broken.

The Future Africa Leaders Foundation (FALF) is a force of radical change, equipping young Africans to transform their communities. In over 40 African countries, they raise voices, rewrite destinies, and confront the systems that keep people bound.

At just 19 years old, Ambassador Favour Effiom became the rallying voice of this cause with the Save The Girl Child Campaign, a courageous and compassionate initiative dismantling the cultural, social, and systemic chains that continue to bind the girl child to silence and suffering.

Mothers must rise fiercely; it is silence that gives consent to oppression.

The Campaign is a safe place, a new beginning, that has rescued 48 teenage girls who had earlier been trapped, abused, and exploited.

The African Girl Child is not a commodity; she is a dreamer, waiting for the chance to become, and with the Save The Girl Child Campaign, that opportunity has arrived.

Join The Future Africa Leaders Foundation today. Let’s all rise for the girl child’s voice to be heard, for her future to be the light far from the darkness she had only known.