Name: Nico Rudder
Social Justice Group: 2022-2023, Girls Access to Education Globally
Date of Fieldwork: February 15, 2023
Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Womens Education Project
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 Wednesday February 15th with Zoe Timms who is the founder of the Womens Education Project. We started off the interview with asking her how she got into this type of work. She explained to us how she was given the opportunity to do a year abroad to India. During her year abroad she researched many things such as polluted rivers and poverty. She discovered a non profit that helped with girls education, and started working as a English teacher for girls. She shared a story with us about a girl who she taught, after her English class she would dismiss them to go to karate. After all the students left one girl was left, she told the girl that she needed to go to class. The girl pointed down to her leg and Zoe realized she had polio. The next time they had a class she dismissed them and went to have tea with the teachers, when the students returned in the middle of the crowd was the girl with a big smile on her face and she said “I did it! I really tried!”. The strength of these girls no matter their situation is truly inspiring.
