Reshman Abro
Nowa-Dil School Reshman, 12, recently graduated from a DIL-NOWA Primary School in Unnar Colony, Khairpur. She is the second youngest of four sisters and three brothers. Her father is a laborer and returns home very late in the evening. Here, she shares her story: "When we first moved to Unnar Colony, I would longingly watch the neighborhood girls scurry off to school each morning. Whenever I broached the subject of attending school with my parents, my father would absolutely refuse to yield. One day the teacher visited my mother and coaxed her into sending me to school. My mother laid one condition: my father must never find out. So I attended school regularly except for the days when father was at home. This is how I joined school—it was the happiest moment of my life. My father, however, did not object to my brothers attending school—he actually en...