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What are your hopes and dreams for girls, women and education in the North? 

In the North, if a girl is educated she can help the mother financially and when a woman has education she can also assist the husband and help the children to also have education. But our problem has to do with poverty. Because it has denied a lot of girls and boys access to education. Another problem is lack of family planning where a couple has too many children they can actually take good care of. (Mma Shara)

For many years, women in the north have largely depended on fetching firewood to cook and sell some for their livelihood which has always been woefully inadequate. So it is good to see some NGOs now trying to help our women folk with knowledge and financial support in terms of loans/revolving fund. (Mma Zara)

Yes. A lot women who were privileged to undergo some training at here at the Simli Center some years back are now able support themselves financially somehow and also able to pay the school fees of their children to attend school. So we see that when women and girls are given education they can support themselves and their families as well. (Mma Rahi)

People who have much knowledge in computers should also be engaged to give lessons to women who have not been to school in their early years so that they can also be part of the modern day life. Some of our mothers who haven't been to school are also using mobile phones to make and receive calls and sometimes they are also taught to play music and tune in to radio on their mobile phones so this means that when computers and mobile phones are available to women and girls also they can take advantage of these modern gadgets. Some people don't have these things because they cannot afford them unless somebody will have to give it to them as gifts. (Mma Zara)

Looking at my parents being so poor I wish I will be different in terms of financial status. There are so many things parents wished they had like a tractor they can use on their farms but because of poverty and lack of education they are not able to get those things. Almost all the tractors that you see on the farms during the farming season are owned by educated people who sit in offices and are also into farming. This also is telling everybody to learn especially girls and women who are mostly the vulnerable.  
When I also look at the few women in higher positions who have power over the  men working under them, it inspires me to want to learn more so i can become one of them.
Right now it is men who are dominating in the higher offices of this country and women are more in terms of numbers so I think this must change.(Rahi)