I am Generation Equality: Zanda Desir, Saint Lucian activist combining her passion for gender equality and food security to ensure young girls can reach their maximum potential
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Saint Lucian activist, Zanda Desir, 27, has worked on issues such as peacebuilding and gender equality, focusing on gender-based violence and victim shaming, during the past 8 years.
She promoted the #NotAskingForIt campaign at the University of the West Indies, to raise awareness about victim blaming and shaming, reaching over 15,000 university students.
A food scientist by training, she has combined her passions for gender equality and food security and is partnering with local organizations to provide nutritional supplementation for young girls so that they are able to achieve their maximum potential. She is a proud member of Women Deliver’s class of 2018.
How do you imagine equality in the next 25 years?
In the next 25 years inclusion will be a way of life and the word “marginalized” will no longer exist.
What is your message for today’s leaders?
I’d like to tell world leaders that they won’t be young forever. Invest in women and girls, and in youth so that you, your children and grandchildren can have a better life.
What is needed to achieve equality and inclusion?
To facilitate equality and inclusion we should make opportunites available to all youth from all corners of the earth.
Learn more:
Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Youth Statement [Spanish]