Safeena Husain’s Every Last Girl Champions India’s Forgotten Daughters

Safeena Husain wrote a book about girls who are often forgotten or discouraged from going to school.

Some families give daughters names that show they did not want another girl.

Her organization, Educate Girls, works with communities to help these children enroll in school.

The organization began as a small project in Rajasthan and eventually reached 2.2 million children.

Thousands of local volunteers helped find girls who were missing from school records.

Husain says poverty is not the only problem, because unfair attitudes toward girls also matter.

She describes threats, government obstacles, and schools that were neglected or unusable.

The book also asks whether enrolling children is enough if their education is poor.

Its main message is that communities must work together so no girl remains invisible.