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Source:The Star
Singer Habida has decided to bare all about her life experiences for a new campaign seeking to empower the girl child. The former model and award wining singer will be opening up about a painful past that includes rape and racial profiling. She is embracing author Carl Gustav Jung mantra, "I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
Speaking to Word Is, the Sunshine singer who is currently in South Africa said, "The campaign, Dear Superwoman, is named after my single Superwoman. I released this song right after my dad passed away. It came to me while he was sick, it made me realise how much I had been through up until then. I have been a rape victim, racially profiled, and so much more and I think this was the beginning of some of my real hardships in my life."
She continued, "I wrote the treatment for the video with several power themes, female godfather, a boxer, riding a motorbike, basically things women wouldn't typically be known to do. Watching other super women like Oprah or Beyonce, kept me going and kept me dreaming. It allowed me to "keep on walking" which is the title of my next song and the next part of my journey."
The campaign calls for young girls to write in to #DearSuperwoman detailing their issues and asking to be considered for a meet and great with a woman they consider a superwoman.
"They have to pick someone in the country they are from," Habida said, "I am doing this because I have had women who have inspired me to keep going and I also want to remind those women who work hard to get where they are. That they are valuable and are making a difference even though they don't remember it sometimes."