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Mothers mini school.
A tablet lesson for students.
Roza with her classmates.
It was Maala’s classmates who hadn’t
forgotten Maala’s promise. These 24
women used to feel alone and helpless,
but since they started attending school
together, they had a whole new sense
of their potential. They were strong
together. They weren’t just voiceless
housewives.
So they got together and spoke with
Roza’s father, asking him to let Roza
pursue an education and realize
Maala’s dream, but it fell on deaf ears.
A girl should be married, he decided.
It’s right; it’s normal; it’s predictable.
Mothers learning in school.
If Maala’s widower didn’t care about her
wishes, maybe Maala’s parents would.
That’s what led a group of Maala’s old
classmates to find Roza’s grandparents
and urge them to help Roza pursue an
education.
They must have been convincing.
Maala’s parents decided that the
mothers were right: Maala’s intelligence
and ambition should live on and should
guide a way for little Roza. They met
with their son-in-law and convinced
him to let them raise Roza, rather than
have him marry her off. Now they
support her while she goes to a public
school every day.
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of Maala’s
classmates and the love of her parents,
Maala’s dream for Roza is coming true.
There remain hundreds of millions
of children in the world with no one
making such a stand for their right to
education, though. The dilemma that
faces international development is how
to reach the unreachable, how to teach
children who can’t attend school. It’s a
crisis. And to solve it, we have to look
at new ways of delivering education.
Injecting education straight into the
center of the family—the mother—is
proving an effective way to do that.
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