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It’s been days since you last ate. Your family barely has money to send you to school. No matter how hard your parents try, they can’t earn enough money. One day, you are offered a job across the border. What would you do? This is the decision girls face in Laos.

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In Singapore, education for all is a given that is often taken for granted. Many of us have even had days when we wished that we didn’t have to go to school! However, in Pakistan, the reality is that girls are denied entry to schools, purely on the basis of their gender.

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You’ve been banished from your house and forced to live in a dark and windowless hut made of mud, straw, and cow dung for the next few days. You are all alone, untouchable, for something you can’t control. And the worst thing is knowing that next month, this will all happen again. Your “crime”? Being on your period. This is the reality of women in west Nepal.