{"id":541,"date":"2011-07-14T23:18:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2011-07-14T23:29:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T23:29:13","slug":"girls-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"Girls Graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, I heard from Kalam Azad, the program manager who has done such wonderful work to break the cycle of inter-generational prostitution in the Nutt community in India. \u00a0From his email:<\/p>\n

“21 girls completed 8th class last month. these\u00a0girls go back to home for 9th and 10th.”<\/p>\n

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Project Manager Aarti Bedi with some of the girls (Mahdu (far left), Juhi with arms around Aarti, Kushboo (far right); Ruxana in back left) who have graduated (pic from 2010).<\/p><\/div>\n

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More girls with Aarti. That's Jyoti on the left and Baybee on the right. (pic from 2010)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nazmeen in turquoise; Khushboo in lavender; Kavita in pink. (pic from 2010)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Teacher Sharda Verma (in white) surrounded by (from left): Madhu, Jyoti, Lata, Shabana, and Shabanam.<\/p><\/div>\n

That’s \u00a0almost half of the KGBV girls I visited in Simraha who otherwise would not have gone to school and gotten that much of an education. \u00a0I am soooo happy for them! \u00a0And I wish them so much luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, I heard from Kalam Azad, the program manager who has done such wonderful work to break the cycle of inter-generational prostitution in the Nutt community in India. \u00a0From his email: “21 girls completed 8th class last month. these\u00a0girls go back to home for 9th and 10th.”   That’s \u00a0almost half of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.greentaraproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}