Common Language Project: Multimedia that Matters

Educating Humiera Pakistanis in Seattle give a Pakistan community the gift of girls' school

by Sarah Stuteville, with other media by Faris KasimAugust 16, 2009

BUGNA, Pakistan — Thirteen-year-old Humiera Kausar's oversized sneakers hurry over piles of granite boulders and through scrubby pines bristling with last night's rain. A headscarf and pink shawl are wound tightly around her small frame to protect against the thick mist that has settled over her high mountain village.

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Categories: Pakistan, Read, Listen, Education, Gender, Poverty and Development