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Anonymous storytelling for girls and young women
A place to break taboos and make girls’ voices heard.
Muriyar Ta means “Her Voice” in Hausa. It is an anonymous storytelling platform where girls and young women whose experiences are too often ignored, silenced, or reduced to statistics can speak up, challenge harmful norms, and bring attention to injustices in their communities.
Sharing a story can help another girl feel less alone and bring lived experience into awareness, solidarity, advocacy, and deeper understanding.
Story submissions are open during the pilot. Every story enters a private review process and is never displayed publicly on submission.
Launching Soon
The full Muriyar Ta platform is launching soon. Story submissions are already open.
Mission and Vision
Why stories matter
Stories reveal what numbers cannot.
“Behind every statistic is a person, a story, a dream, and a lived experience that deserves to be acknowledged.”
Statistics can show the scale of child marriage, education barriers, gender-based violence, and harmful social norms. Stories show how those realities feel, what they interrupt, and what girls imagine beyond them.
When lived experience is heard, it can create connection and help people understand an issue beyond a number on a page.
- Help another girl feel less alone
- Challenge silence, stigma, and harmful assumptions
- Help communities understand experiences they may not see
- Bring girls’ voices into research, programs, policy, and advocacy
What you can share
Whatever You Choose to Share Matters.
You can write about one moment, a longer journey, a question you still carry, or a future you are working toward.
- Education, school access, and interrupted opportunities
- Child marriage, family expectations, and personal choice
- Safety, gender-based violence, and harmful social norms
- Health, menstruation, puberty, and topics surrounded by silence
- Identity, ambition, community, resilience, and hope
You decide what belongs in your story and what you want to leave private.
Why anonymity matters
Your safety matters to us
For some girls and young women, being publicly identified can affect family relationships, marriage prospects, personal safety, or standing in a community. It can lead to exclusion or violence.
Anonymity makes space for honest expression without requiring a contributor to attach her public identity to a difficult experience. It is a protection built into how Muriyar Ta receives and reviews stories.
What happens when you share
The submission form asks for your story, its language, and your consent. It does not ask you to create an account or provide your name.
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It is received privately
Your submission enters a private review process and does not appear publicly when you send it.
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The team reviews it
The story is read for safety, consent, context, and alignment with Muriyar Ta’s editorial purpose.
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Identifying details are protected
Details that could identify you or another person may be removed or adjusted before a story is considered for public use.
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Its best form is considered
A reviewed story may inform written storytelling, audio work, awareness, or advocacy through a separate editorial process.
Identity protection
How your identity is protected
Muriyar Ta is designed to reduce the personal information attached to a submission and to keep review separate from publication.
No account required
You do not need to create a profile or provide your name to submit a story.
Private by default
A new submission is not publicly visible and remains in the review process.
Careful editing
Names, places, relationships, and other identifying details can be removed or changed.
Consent remains central
The form records your choices, and public use requires an editorial decision beyond the initial submission.
Support and limits
What Muriyar Ta can provide
Muriyar Ta can receive a story privately, protect anonymity through the review process, and connect visitors with a directory of trusted organizations and services.
The platform can help lived experience contribute to awareness, solidarity, learning, and advocacy.
Launching soon
The full Muriyar Ta platform is taking shape.
The pilot begins with anonymous story submissions and a trusted resource directory. The wider platform will bring stories, learning, and public engagement together with care.
These parts of the full experience are planned to launch progressively:
Anonymous Storytelling
Carefully reviewed stories shared without exposing contributor identities.
Stories Archive
An editorial collection that helps readers find experiences across themes and places.
Podcasts
Narrated stories and conversations that extend the reach of girls’ voices.
Trusted Resources
A directory of organizations offering crisis, legal, mental health, education, and community support.
Research and Reports
Responsible learning from recurring themes without exposing unpublished stories or contributor identities.
Awareness and Advocacy
Work that brings lived experience into conversations about programs, policy, and social change.
A note from the founder
Every voice matters. Silence protects problems and perpetrators, not people or victims.
Around the world, we witness countless conversations about child marriage, barriers to girls' education, gender-based violence, and harmful social norms. While these conversations are very important and necessary, I am struck by how rarely we hear directly from the girls and young women most affected by these issues. Too often, their experiences are reduced to statistics, reports, and policy discussions, while their voices remain absent.
Muriyar Ta was born from a deep personal belief that meaningful change begins with listening and storytelling. Behind every statistic on child marriage is a person, a story, a dream, and a lived experience that deserves to be acknowledged. I want to create a space where girls and young women can share those experiences safely, anonymously, and in their own words. A space where they are not spoken for, but listened to.
I believe speaking up can be liberating, save lives, and inspire real action.
Contact
Connect with Muriyar Ta
- Founder
- Yacine Badamassi Djariri
- muriyarta@gmail.com
Your voice can reach further
Your story may be the reason another girl feels less alone.
A lived experience, shared in your own words, can create recognition, understanding, and the courage to imagine something different.