It’s never easy to turn around your life especially when you come from humble beginnings. From a society that doesn’t do much to help and from a family that may or may not support you depending what it is you want to do.
What the mind can conceive, it can achieve. Is it all in the mind? Does it take a mindset to change your life, circumstances and situation around?
We recently came across this newspaper article journey Meet the Maasai girl who ran from home to become first lawyer.
She is now a lawyer
But she was then an escapee of early forced child marriage.
The Maasai community is known for its prevalence in early marriage and though to date it may seem that it doesn’t happen because the stories seem few, it still does.
Josephine Rotiken was tipped off by a neighbor that her marriage ceremony was being planned which is when she realized she needed to hatch a plan to escape from home.
What was your father’s reaction after you refused to marry his 33-year-old friend?
Josephine’s story is unique because she knew in her own mind that she had to make a decision to run away because she has dreams like all little girls of having an amazing future with opportunities that will bring a difference to her and her family’s life.
Read her amazing journey here
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