For Impoverished Girls, School Is Just a Dream

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On the desolate salt pans of western India, as in much of the developing world, poverty and long-standing social customs bar many girls from attending school.

From October to May, the Patadia family works in the salt pans of western India and lives in an isolated hut, a seven-hour walk from their village, Kharaghoda. Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post

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