When Shennel E.P. Henries was a little girl growing up in Liberia, maybe 5 years old, she remembers seeing a woman speaking out to get help for people who needed it. For people displaced by the country’s civil war. For homeless people. For kids who didn’t have enough to eat.
Henries told her mom she wanted to be just like that lady.
And that’s a dream that she hasn’t given up. This week, Henries, now 19 and a college student in Monrovia, was in Washington, D.C., as part of Girl Up’s annual leadership summit.
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