Georgie was born in the Ivory Coast. She grew up between the Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. She is the 5th child out of 10 brothers and sisters. Georgie spent a lot of her childhood in the village of Koffikro, where she used to wake up every morning at 6 AM to fetch water with her grandmother and female cousins. Fetching water wasn’t Georgie’s favorite thing to do, and Georgie wasn’t a morning person. She often went to the back of the house and cried for some time, kicking the dust before grabbing her bucket to go fetch the water. Georgie and her family walked 3 hours back and forth to fill their barrel of water, fetching 59 gallons of water per barrel. In Georgie’s culture, fetching water was considered to be the mission of young girls or women. Her brothers and male cousins were allowed to sleep while her and the other girls in the house had to go fetch the water. Georgie had a hard time accepting this gender inequality. At night, before going to bed, Georgie would ask her grandmother “why is the water so far? Why do we have to boil the water before we drink it?” Her grandmother replied that Georgie asked too many questions. However, her grandmother secretly had faith that one day Georgie would grow up and do something about them.