Half the Sky

by Nicholas D. Kristof

“I gave birth to her, and so I can never forget her,” Meena said. “I must fight for her as long as I breathe. Every day without Naina feels like a year.”

We sometimes think that Westerners invest too much effort in changing unjust laws and not enough in changing culture, by building schools or assisting grassroots movements.

If more Americans worked for a summer teaching English at a school like Mukhtar’s in Pakistan, or working at a hospital like HEAL Africa in Congo, our entire society would have a richer understanding of the world around us.