The Asian Human Rights Commission posted an article by Amir Murtaza today discussing the importance of sanitation for school-aged girls in Pakistan. Without dirty and broken facilities at school, girls must go in search of a toilet, interrupting studies and disrupting their educational paths. The link between sanitation and development is all too real for these girls. From the article:
Bushra Abro left the school when she was in class VII, “Since my childhood, I have keen interest in getting education. I have really worked hard during my studies; however, after my primary school, it was quite difficult for me to continue the studies as the new school was quite far away from my house. I still remember that school didn’t have any toilet, which was really painful for all of us.”
Click here to read the full article at AHRC.org.
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Caroline D’Angelo is the Pulitzer Center's social media editor. She recently obtained her Master of Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She worked for the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) at the Wharton School (UPenn) doing research and communications. Caroline was awarded the Society of Women Environmental Professionals’ 2011-2012 scholarship in recognition of her environmental work. She was also awarded University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences' prestigious Dean's Scholar Award in 2012 at a ceremony with keynote speaker of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. She received a B.A. from the University of Virginia in 2007, with a thesis on environmental ethics. She interned for The Nature Conservancy in data management and research, building a global database of river health taking into account deforestation, dams and pollution. She also interned at Friends of the Earth, where she advocated for better policy design for ethanol, and created an online and print media communications campaign. At Penn, Caroline has received two grants from the Provost’s Office to run university-wide environmental events and co-founded (with Dakota Dobyns) an academic initiative to publish a journal on global women and water issues which will be published in April 2012 (wh2ojournal.com). She also represented Penn, Philadelphia Global Water Initiative and IGEL on a trip to Sri Lanka and India. She is a Reporter in Residence for Oikos International has covered the World Resources Forum 2011 in Davos, Switzerland; Oikos/United Nations Programme for Responsible Investment Young Scholars Finance Academy in Gais, Switzerland in 2012; and the World Water Forum 2012 in Marseille, France. She is also active in the outdoors and is a former wilderness guide, and is an avid kayaker and backpacker. She loves to travel and has gone to five continents.
