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Changing Pakistani women’s lives, one sip of tea, one bike ride at a time

March 28, 2019 Renee Shur Activism, Immigration, International, Widgets: Women, Women Leave a comment

Sadia Khatri is determined to change the lives of women and girls in Pakistan—one tea-sipping, snacking, strolling, bicycle-riding excursion at a time.  The story

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I’m graduating from high school, but what has school actually prepared me for?

January 6, 2014 Hafsa Education, Ideas, Youth issues Leave a comment

I will graduate high school knowing how to take the derivative of complicated logarithmic equations. I will not graduate high school knowing how to

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