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India
Rasoolpur's Gang of Girls Take Charge
Anjali Singh
A quaint school building in Rasoolpur
village in the remote district of Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh has been the site of a powerful rights-based campaign to address the problems of corruption being faced by the local people. But what was particularly - and delightfully - surprising about this campaign was the fact that it was anchored by local women. Today, eight years on, they are still at it. The latest cause that these gutsy Rasoolpur girls have espoused is to expose a huge scam in public foodgrain distribution.
"We used to guard the school building day and night, brandishing 'chappals' and 'jhadus' (slippers and brooms) to keep away the headmaster's goons from tampering with the evidence."
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