Soul Searching After A 16-Year-Old's Suicide
She was the first in her family to make it to 10th grade. When she saw her final exam grades, she was upset. Her death is a tragic reminder of the pressures teenage girls face in India.
Do you ever feel so discouraged in your job that you just want to quit?
That's a tough question. When Safeena Husain answered it during a panel discussion at the Skoll World Forum this spring, an annual gathering that addresses social change, she began crying – and her story brought tears to the eyes of the audience as well.
Husain is founder and director of , a nonprofit group in India that encourages families in rural areas to send their daughters to school and keep them in school. In many parts of the country, families do not put a priority on educating girls. One reason is that parents may thinkdaughters will end up leaving the family to live with her husband's family, so there's no benefit to them if
