{"id":1369607,"date":"2025-08-19T10:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwcstaging.co.uk\/?post_type=impact-story&amp;p=1369607"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:37:44","slug":"international-womens-history-month-spotlight-emihle-dlamini","status":"publish","type":"impact-story","link":"https:\/\/dev.uwcstaging.co.uk\/es\/impact-story\/international-womens-history-month-spotlight-emihle-dlamini\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#8217;s History Month spotlight: Emihle Dlamini"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\"><strong>Emihle Dlamini (Eswatini, Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa,\u00a02024-2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\"><strong>In honour of International Women\u2019s History Month and International Women\u2019s Day (8 March), UWC is celebrating stories of courage, equality and unity from around the movement. We\u2019re highlighting the inspiring stories of scholars from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalfundforwomen.org\/\">Global Fund for Women<\/a>-UWC partnership, an initiative designed to expand leadership and education pathways for talented adolescent girls from Sub-Saharan Africa. One student, Emihle Dlamini, a passionate and driven GFW scholar at Waterford Kamhlaba UWCSA, has embraced this mission wholeheartedly, advocating for gender equality and literacy among women in her home country of Eswatini.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">What began as her mother\u2019s childhood dream of attending Waterford Kamhlaba UWCSA became Emihle\u2019s reality when she arrived at the school to start Form One. Seeing the opportunity as a \u201conce in a lifetime,\u201d Emihle seized it wholeheartedly: \u201cI fell in love with the UWC movement because I think being open-minded is the best thing ever. Being close-minded limits you so much as a person\u2014you don\u2019t grow. I wouldn\u2019t be who I am today if I hadn\u2019t come to WK,\u201d she grins.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-becoming-a-confident-change-maker\" style=\", sans-serif\">Becoming a confident change-maker<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">That Emihle was ever insecure and shy is difficult to imagine given her disarming candour, easy confidence and admirable list of achievements. Emihle credits her teachers, peers and UWC\u2019s philanthropic legacy for fuelling her growth into the self-assured young woman she is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>I think the \u2018C\u2019 in UWC should stand for change. Everyone I&#8217;ve met here is an extraordinary change-maker. When you&#8217;re surrounded by people like that, you want to do the same. It draws you in. Making a place better than it was is really important to me.<br><\/p><cite>Emihle Dlamini (WK UWCSA, 2024-2026)<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">Although still a scholar at Waterford Kamhlaba UWCSA, funded by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalfundforwomen.org\/\">Global Fund for Women<\/a>, Emihle Dlamini is already making the world a better place through her commitment to gender equity, literacy and mentoring. Her Community, Action and Service (CAS) activities at UWCSA read like a roadmap of how to prepare for a career in human rights, particularly her leadership roles in advocating for women and girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Women are the future. We are the backbone of society, especially in Eswatini where women are so often overlooked.<br><\/p><cite>Emihle Dlamini (WK UWCSA, 2024-2026)<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">\u00abWhen I advocate for women,\u201d Emihle explains, \u00abI try to address the mindset of our young girls so that they know they can go much further than anyone in their family has gone before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-leading-the-young-women-s-empowerment-consortium\" style=\", sans-serif\">Leading the Young Women&#8217;s Empowerment Consortium<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">As part of her advocacy work, Emihle is the Young Women&#8217;s Empowerment Consortium (YWEC) operations executive. The group held its first event this year, bringing together young women from all over Eswatini to learn from inspiring and successful women representing various fields. It included a panel that Emihle was asked to moderate called Steps to Success. \u201cIt featured professional women who took different paths to their success. It\u2019s important to show young women that there&#8217;s no prescribed formula.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">In addition to working with YWEC, Emihle is president of the Student Representative Council, an executive for the school\u2019s community-wide Africa Week celebrations and a member of the girls\u2019 leadership development program Girl Up. She is also a literacy volunteer at a preschool each week, an experience that inspired her to found Literacy for Life, an organisation that helps improve English literacy rates among girls and women in Eswatini. In previous years, she has been the head of Girl Up, a member of the school\u2019s alumni relations CAS, a soccer player, captain of the rugby team and the head of Race Talks. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-addressing-race-and-gender-in-society\" style=\", sans-serif\">Addressing race and gender in society<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">\u201cRace Talks is really important because we need to have hard conversations at UWC, to address real issues within our communities. It was especially important for me to talk about the treatment of women of different races and how that shapes our lives\u2014to look at the intersection of race and gender. You can\u2019t remove the fact that you are this race and this gender from this place. All the different components of who you are is what shapes you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">For Emhlie, education is just the first step in addressing inequality\u2014she believes that meaningful, lasting change must come from institutional reform and policymaking. As she looks toward university and beyond, it\u2019s clear that Emihle\u2019s impact will be felt far beyond the walls of Waterford. Her plans include studying political science or economics\u2014ideally at Dartmouth. \u201cI think anyone in making policy needs to understand economics. You can\u2019t make very good decisions if you don&#8217;t know how money works.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\">Seeing policy and economics as interlinked, she hopes her work in gender equity can help end poverty in Eswatini: \u201cIt\u2019s such a UWC thing to think that gender, mindset and poverty are interlinked. Poverty is generational in my country and it comes with the mindset that there are no opportunities to better yourself. That\u2019s something I want to help change.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\", sans-serif\" class=\"\"><em>Written by&nbsp;Samantha&nbsp;Gayfer, Director of Strategic Development at the Discovery Group.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emihle Dlamini (Eswatini, Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa,\u00a02024-2026) In honour of International Women\u2019s History Month and International Women\u2019s Day (8 March), UWC is celebrating stories of courage, equality and unity from around the movement. 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