This is my favourite place in Waru. 
I love it because you can see everywhere,
you don’t have to stress yourself to go far,
to say “I’m trekking to this side, to this side”
you just have to come to the top of the mountain
and this is my favourite place.
This is a video series in which girls from countries around the world
are sharing their stories and telling what matters to them.
Hi everyone.
This is Roll Call
Hi my name is Peace Ayo. I am 16 years old.
I am an advocate for girls' education.
I live in Waru community in Abuja, Nigeria.
I am interested in girls' education,
equal rights for women and girls
and entire growth of citizens in my country.
When I was 10 and I said that I wanted to do something for girls,
but I really did not know what to do.
Until we came to this community. 
This community opened my eyes to so many things.
Because if I never came here,
I wouldn't have known that
some girls don't go to school because they don't get encouragement.
Because everybody has just said that...  
“Why would you go to school? At the end of the day you get married. 
So why bother?”
So in my free time I go to my brother's school to pick him up.
Which I'm just doing now.
I focus on girls because I feel like they have so many potential that 
they would have not seen, 
but they don’t just, they want to believe in them
and they don't believe in themselves.
So I just want to build that bridge,
to make the world see these girls as people
who can build positive change to the community
and the nation and to also make these girls believe that 
they can also bring positive change to the nation. 
As an education champion, the best message you have
is to show your own success story.
To say "look at me, I am in school. I’m now in university,
I’m now in college, I want you girls to be like me."
We are running All Girls Must Go To School,
where we currently we have 17 girls in school.
We do competitions to promote learning
among young people in the community.
So our area of focus is education, health and empowerment.
So I am heading to the venue where Dora club is being held.
It is where young girls gather to learn how to be advocates,
to know how to speak up for themselves,
to know how to solve issues in their communities
and how they can bring change to their communities.
We need to talk about ourselves as advocates,
we need to talk about ourselves as girls.
We are going to talk about us as teenagers.
Right?
I speak on behalf of every single one of my out of school Nigerian sisters.
We have fantastic dreams for our futures.
But we can only achieve it if leaders invest in 12 years of free,
safe and quality education.
My mum, her name is Agnes Ayo.
I always get my inspiration from her.
I want to do better,
I want to make her proud because she is always saying I am making her proud
and if I have done this little and she is this proud of me, I want to do more.
I hope that these stories would have inspired you
and that you'll share it with your friends as well.
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