In 2007, Safeena Husain began with 50 Rajasthan villages. Today, Educate Girls has enrolled 1.4M girls in 30,000 villages and is the first Indian NGO to win Magsaysay.
“Around 25 years back, people in rural areas were so open about killing their daughters, they would not mind showing the places where the foetuses were dumped," says the courageous 'Daughter of Punjab'.
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