Name: Nico Rudder

Social Justice Group: 2022-2023, Girls Access to Education Globally

Date of Fieldwork: January 4, 2023

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):The founder of HFC

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

On January 4th 2023 our group met with Sarah Symons to talk about her involvement in HFC and her experiences. Before the interview we researched her and why she decided to found her company. In 2002 Sarah had been working to make songs for tv shows. She had seen a documentary about sex trafficking in Nepal and India, it had influenced her to quit her job and create this foundation.

Throughout the interview Sarah told us about what she has done so far for example going into refugee camps. She also told us about certain people she helped and her views on going into different community with a respectful mindset. Her company goes into different community and set up an education system which can give girl access to education. In the beginning they set up workshops so that the girls could make jewelry and other things that could provide them with income and skills. They started offering education later after realizing that it could make the women more successful and it would be more productive.