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Dedicated to the Inspirational and Courageous Children of the Inner-city... Our Hope for a Brighter Future
"Girls in Nepal are not encouraged to have opinions or develop their individuality, and those from disadvantaged backgrounds are at the bottom of the heap," says Sue Carpenter, organiser of a photography exhibition in the country to help such girls find their voice.
The exhibition features the work of 22 participants, aged six to 17-years-old, who live in the care of Save our Sisters Bahini, an organisation in the town of Pokhara that accommodates girls who have been abused or neglected.
I am looking forward to the day, when I arrive back home.I am tired of being the outsider.I want to return home,where I will be welcomed back into the fold. It is to be a brief, yet difficult sojourn in your territory.I have lost my bearings. To find where I belong, must I go forward, because I have never belonged, or must I retrace my steps back home?
I stand motionless,stunned bewildered. What I see around me I find so unfamiliar.I have no memory of what came before. The unease is the only thing that is familiar. I struggle against you, against myself. I struggle to find meaning. I just struggle, against the conventions, against the norms, against the wisdom. It is all foreign to me. It makes no sense. And yet you find beauty in it all.
This sojourn will be brief, but what do I know, with a past forgotten and a future uncertain. Please just answer me this: to find my way home will I have to forge ahead or retrace my steps. Will I have to forge ahead or retrace my steps? Please just answer me, just answer me this.
M. Foroughi Penny in the Gutter and Other Collected Works
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