Former Miss South Africa Shudufhadzo Musida is UNFPA's new Regional Champion. Watch how this girl from a village in South Africa has risen to celebrated author and a champion for women and girls' rights.

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16-year-old Martha Mwiya, a grade 9 learner in rural Senanga district, is among more than 15,000 adolescent girls who have benefitted from the safe spaces programme in target districts across the country. Growing up in a remote village in Senanga, Martha is using the skills she has acquired through the safe space to transform the lives of other marginalized girls in her village.