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Bihar

Posted inLessons From Abroad, News

India’s push to better educate its girls

Avatar photo by Sarah Garland October 18, 2011March 30, 2020

Ruby Khatoon’s experience is common for many young women in Bihar, India’s poorest state: Her father didn’t allow her to go to school because the 50 cents she earned each day making incense was too valuable. At age 15, she didn’t even know the alphabet. Her neighbor Nazia Hassan, 16, dropped out of school in […]

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