“I am going to be the Managing
Director of a company that
Educates Maasai Girls in
Tanzania”
Neema Mollel
BEAUTY
FOR
ASHES
NEEMA MOLLEL
Desire
, determination, and dedication may
sound more like another combination of
steps to success, but for Neema Mollel,
these are stories worth telling. She calls
Engaruka village in Monduli her home.
As a Maasai girl, her father did not have
plans to take her to school. It was
pre-ordained that she would get married
when she turned 14. Luckily, with time,
her mother thought otherwise. She took
the responsibility of taking Neema to
primary school, but that was the only
support she could afford give.
All that was left to do after receiving a
primary education was marriage. Maasai
parents do not take their daughters to
secondary school because they barely
complete school without pregnancy.
And if they do, they fail in the national
examinations.
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