Desire Luzinda on why she launched Girls and Goals Campaign

Curvy singer Desire Luzinda has revealed the reasons why she started ‘Girls and Goals Campaign’.

The singer recently stated that she will use her fame to impact someone. As she promotes her latest album Transition, the Kitone singer published reasons why she started the above campaign.

“I spent the better part of yesterday at a video shoot for one of the songs off my album, Transition. Wait for it! I was so immersed in the shooting, I couldn’t even attend to my phone. Very late at night, it dawned on me that the world was observing the Day of the Girl Child. Wooh!! I had spent mine doing something special to me. I took dozens of pictures, danced a lot and had so much fun. This would have doubled in measure had I known it was our day.

Girls go through a plethora of trials everyday. Girls in the music business are sexually harassed. Girls in offices are forced to sleep with men if they’re to get a promotion or pay rise. Girls are discontinued from school when they get pregnant. It’s a tough world this is for the girl child. That’s why yesterday, the International Day for the Girl Child is so special. It comes to remind us of these trials. We must see them, and work towards creating a safe place for every girl.

Today, I can afford all the fun I desire. I have an iPhone to take my pics. I can fly out on a whim. I can afford to buy from the best designer shops. But I would be a liar to say, it has been easy to get to this point. I have gone through it all, I wouldn’t wish for another girl to go through the same.

Let me tell you briefly a story of my own. In 2003, I got pregnant while I was still in school. I was in a candidate class. It wasn’t the best time to carry a baby but I resolved to let the bun grow in my womb.

As my tummy grew, some classmates ridiculed me. They called me names. Others treated me like an outcast. Only two friends stood by me. Only them allowed to carry the ‘shame’ of associating with me.

At four months I was forced to leave school and study from home. School environment had become toxic. Yet the school administration was tolerant and supportive, the students, my contemporaries were not. I hated them then, but not now that I have grown.

Most of the people are not educated on how to treat a pregnant girl in their midst.

After giving birth, I was worried of how life would turn out for me. I was also worried about my child’s welfare. The things I worried about; food, clothes, school fees, and milk.

These days, I worry less about the food she will eat. I am mostly concerned about the world she is growing up in.

That’s why I launched the Girls and Goals campaign. Creating a safe place for my daughter and every girl across the nation is one of my core missions.

I have something started to address the various issues, my plea is that you get on aboard.
#transition,” Desire Luzinda posted.