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Maria Rattray
1 min readDec 11, 2020

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What is an activist? It’s a person who believes strongly in social change and does something to effect that change.

Activists build new models.

They also work to get rid of the old.

An activist doesn’t see that the river is unclean. Instead he cleans the river.

An activist is at the same time, an optimist.

And who is this student?

Her story begins in a small village in Zimbabwe. A small village where a young girl, Chido Govera, grew up shouldering a weight of responsibility that no child should be asked to endure, rising at 4am to ensure that her blind grandmother and younger brother had water and food, before she set off for school

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Maria Rattray
Maria Rattray

Written by Maria Rattray

Writer, author, teacher, fun-loving poet. Trying valiantly to make the world a better place. Helping you to guide the future. Find me at: https://ponmyword.com

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