Existing comment:
Parmila, 18, Nepal. Social Worker.
"I see cases of child marriage and violence against women in my village all the time, and I really want to end it. Violence doesn't have to involve hitting somebody – I think keeping a woman inside all the time and not giving her any freedom is violence, too. That's what it used to be like in my family. My mum wasn't allowed to go out, and she always had to serve the men first. It used to make me so angry to watch her live like that.
In the end, my friends and I sat my parents down and explained that this wasn't acceptable. I was really nervous beforehand, but now things are better and my mum is proud of me. Sometimes she walks over to me and puts her hand on my shoulder and says, ‘My daughter is doing good work. She's changing things. She won't be like me.'" |