From National Public Radio (NPR)
Humaira Bachal, 25, has become a crusader of sorts. She has a passion for education in a country where going door-to-door asking fathers to send their daughters to school can mean risking your life.
“Education is a basic need and a fundamental right for every human being,” she says. “I want to change the way my community looks at education, and I will continue to do this until my last breath.”
It’s hard not to worry about Bachal after the shooting of Malala Yousafzai, the teenager attacked by the Taliban last October in northern Pakistan for speaking out in support of girls’ education. Malala was released Friday from a British hospital and is expected to remain in Britain for at least the next few years.
Bachal, meanwhile, recently starred in a documentary series in which her efforts to educate children in her Karachi neighborhood of Moach Goth were the centerpiece.
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