Virginia Khunguni

Virginia Khunguni is a women's rights activist from Malawi. She is the founder and director of Girls Arise for Change Archived 2025-04-06 at the Wayback Machine, an organization that aims to empower women in order to foster social and cultural change. Quotes "The Queen’s Young Leaders Award has motivated fellow young women and girls in my country to become their own voices against societal practices that limits their potential as women." “I work with young girls who are victims of abuses. For them, seeing me standing there with the Queen was a big inspiration. It doesn’t matter where you are coming from, but where you want to be in a life that is what matters.” “To them, it was like I was looking for men because I was the only female in the whole environment of men. Instead of getting support, you are treated like a prostitute. It was very humiliating for me. I was abused but couldn’t get support and I was very young. I didn’t know where to go.” “When you are a victim and you talk about it, people see [it] you as if you are proud of it. It was very hard to talk about it. People expected me to be quiet, they expected me to hide it.” External links Category:1975 births Category:Living people Category:Activists Category:21st century Category:women