Walking For Water: How One Boy Stood Up For Gender Equality
Walking For Water: How One Boy Stood Up For Gender Equality In this inspiring story of individual activism, a boy recognizes gender inequality when his sister must stop attending school --- and…
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Walking For Water: How One Boy Stood Up For Gender Equality
In this inspiring story of individual activism, a boy recognizes gender inequality when his sister must stop attending school --- and decides to do something about it.Victor is very close to his twin sister, Linesi. Instead, Linesi, like the other older girls in their community, walks to the river to get water five times a day, to give their mother more time for farming. But now that they have turned eight years old, she no longer goes to school with him.
But he has begun learning about equality at school, and his teacher has asked the class to consider whether boys and girls are treated equally. Victor knows this is the way it has always been. Though he never thought about it before, Victor realizes they're not.
And it's not fair to his sister. So Victor comes up with a plan to help.Based on a true story of a Malawian boy, award-winning author Susan Hughes's inspiring book celebrates