The document tells the story of Marina Chapman, a woman who was kidnapped at age 4 in Colombia and lived alone in the jungle with monkeys for 6 years until she was discovered by hunters at age 10. She was then sold to a brothel but eventually escaped. She was later taken in by a Colombian family and eventually moved to England where she married. She published her autobiography in 2012 and recently returned to Colombia to search for her biological family, though authorities did not allow her to enter the jungle.
3. Imagine a country where
girls have to sneak out to
go to school risking their
lives if they were caught in
the act during the study.
This is Afghanistan under
the rule of the Taliban.
The twenty-two Shabana
Basij-Rasikh, who runs a
school for women in
Afghanistan, tells her story.
4. In her family education was
price and daughters was
treasured. There was no
question that children would
receive an education,
including daughters. She
dreams big, but her family
dreams even bigger for her.
She is a global ambassador of
10x10 and a co-founder of
SOLA, the first school in
Afghanistan, a country where
Taliban still intimidate by
bombs the families.
5. Today, more than three
million girls are in school in
Afghanistan.
Seeing students in her school
and their parents who
advocate for them, who
encourage them , she sees a
promising future and lasting
change. Afghanistan it's a
country of hope and bounty
possibilities, and every single
day the girls of SOLA remind
her that. Like her, they are
dreaming big.
7. Tarzan, Queen of the Jungle
The story of Marina
Chapman, seems like a
novel!
No one knows where she
lived, what her real name
was, what she did in the
jungle.
The hypothesis is she was mugged when she was four years
old. Peraphs the kidnap went wrong and the kidnapper left
the girl in the Colombian jungle.
8. Since that time the little girl lived with a group of capuchin
monkeys. She learnt by them, their style of life, she learnt to
move on the tree, ate bananas and berry wild and
communicated with animals by the same guttural sounds!
At age ten, she was
discovered by a pair of
hunters. The society was to
reclaim her!
In exchange for a parrot they
sold her to a brothel in
Cucuta, Colombia. When she
learned that she was to be
groomed for prostitution, she
made her plans to escape.
But her adventure wasn’t
over yet...
9. When she was 18 years old,
a colombian family picked
her up from the street and
kept her as a servant.
When the family moved to
Bradford, England, she met
her present husband.
Many years later she
decided to talk to him
about her past.
She has publishedin 2012 an autobiography
book
10. Marina Chapman actually is
60 years old.
Two years ago she went
back to Colombia to find
her biological family.
The authorities didn’t
allowed her to go in the
jungle.