Name: Iris Edelstein

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):HFC, Sarah Symons, Founder

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?[:: :

We interviewed Sarah Symons, founder of HFC, an organization that helps girls in India and Nepal have access to an education. We discussed that when girls have an education, it can help them with many things, including getting a stable job, having marriage not getting in the way of an education, and preventing early pregnancy.

I think this was super important because many kids do not want to go to school because they view it as such a chore, myself included. Hearing these girls’ stories and hearing about their journey was very interesting because i think we take education for granted very frequently, but maybe we should open our eyes and see how privileged we really are.