Reaching for the Sky: Empowering Girls Through Education

Transforming the Lives of Impoverished Girls in Patriarchal Societies

Since 2003 a privately funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh. Urvashi Sahni, the founder of Prerna Girls School, has written a compelling narrative of how this modest school in northeast India has changed...