“ I DON'T NEED TO GET MARRIED, SURFING COMPLETES ME.”
Julia Fernando Ginge
Julia Fernando Ginge
“I don’t need a husband. I have surfing,” says Julia Fernando Ginge – Tofo Surf Club’s trailblazing coach, and the first woman surfer in Mozambique to be sponsored by an international surf brand.
“The expectations for girls in my village are very basic: cooking, cleaning, looking after the young, and waiting to get married,” she continues. “Before surfing, my mind was programmed that way: 'When I grow up, I have to find a husband.’
“But with the way things are going now and
