“I just want to serve
people without having a
big name or title like a
president.”
Roda is enjoying her time at the African
In the next 25 years, she will be running a
Leadership University. “So far I’m still on chain of schools for girls-only, the homeless,
self-discovery, but I get so many inspirations and orphans. Roda says she “always wanted
from my peers. Classes and the curriculum to open opportunities for girls in my country.
are very different, and that’s what I like
When I saw the African Leadership
most,” she says. She loves Mauritius. The
University, (ALU,) a place that does not
weather, the people, and the beaches; all
discriminate people and give them an
make the list of her favourite things in the
opportunity to gain skills that could help
country. Food couldn’t make it to her list,
though. “Mauritian food is probably the only them develop, I knew that was it. That’s why
challenge I’m facing,” she laughs.
I applied and I will share the ALU spirit
with my fellows in Somaliland.”
Roda enjoys dancing, listening to music,
writing and watching the sunset.