Desert Flower

In religion we learned about the Millennium Development Goals. One goal our class focused on was gender equality, so we watched a movie about a Somalian woman named Waris Dirie who was forced to undergo female genital mutilation when she was a very young girl. She had to do loads of work and at the age of 12 she was getting an arranged marriage with a much older man. So in the middle of the night she ran away. She travelled for days in the heat with no food or water. Eventually she got to the city to meet her distant relatives, who sent her on a plane to England. She ended up in the Somalian embassy, where she was treated like a slave. A couple years later she got a job in a fast food restaurant and was spotted by a famous photographer. She soon became a well know model. She know is an advocate for other women like her and is working to stop female genital mutilation. We all made mood boards about the movie.. this is mine and Caoilfhionn's one... :L