The future is not something that just happens; it is something we build step by step and choice by choice. Every decision I make today is helping to shape the world I want to see tomorrow.
I look at the above question, and I ask myself, ‘What exactly in the future needs shaping?’, ‘Which shape does the future even need—Square? Trapezium? Because honestly, when you think about it, everyone seems to be obsessed with shaping ‘the future’, the mysterious ‘to come’. But what happens to ‘the now’, this imperfect, present moment we live in?
Themed “How Do You Hope to Shape the Future?”, the competition invites girls aged 9 to 16 to express their dreams and visions through poems, essays, or letters to their future selves
For many, the lack of access to affordable menstrual products, limited education on menstrual health, and persistent stigma create barriers that go far beyond the classroom.
Girls from the school geared towards ending the struggle low-income women and girls face while trying to afford menstrual products
