“I’m so glad to be the one who brought change in lives of these out of school young girls”, says Noreen proudly while sharing her success.

Parents gave different excuses for not sending their daughters to school i.e. looking after young siblings, supporting mothers in work and having no money to send their daughters to school. She was surprised “to see that most of these parents have sons who are going to school but for daughters they say they do not have money.”
She had to do a lot of work to get these girls into schools. She talked to their parents on their own. Then she organized their meeting with the Program Office of Bedari. Later she organized a meeting between school teachers and the parents of the out-of-school girls. She organized another meeting between the parents of school going girls and parents of out-of-school girls. After a six-month long vigorous campaign, all the 13 girls were admitted to the village school.

Bedari feels proud for training her on social mobilization and gender sensitization. In addition to the training she got from Bedari, it is her internal commitment to the cause of women’s rights that motivated her to work a step forward. She says “I want to continue my efforts for women’s rights and for that I need to have more knowledge and ability to prove myself. Therefore I will continue my education and will keep on working with parents who do not send their daughters to school.”