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Since I was young, I was always asking myself why people in African, mostly women and children, always suffer from malnutrition, gender inequality, poverty, injustice and many more problems which are against their rights. Because I was still young, I would not understand the reason why of those things were happening. Crimes were committed to human beings by other human beings. After a certain period of time, I came to understand that there are many reasons behind what happens in the world. Some of the reasons was that some people do not know their rights and others are working for their interest only. That made me think that there is a need of people who can stand-up and help others to overcome their life problems. If one wants to make an impact, s/he should start on himself. This made me decided to plan to join different instructions and companies that deals with public health. One of those organization is GHC. In fact, I want to join GHC fellow because I am passionate about its mission of health equity among people. Through its provided mentorship and
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When she finished primary school, she was not able to attend secondary school due to the fact that her parents were saying that she has to stay home and help her mother. According to her parents, a girl’s diploma is a husband. This made me realize that in many corners of the country, there are still people who are facing different social injustices because of things that they are not responsible of. Therefore, people who are aware of this should help ignorant people to overcome their social problems. Witnessing this action impacted my actions specifically because I realized that though parents in urban areas understand the importance of education, but there is a long way to help even rural parents to understand that every child has the right to education regardless of

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