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The Karuna Girls College focuses exclusively on education beyond elementary school for teenage girls and vocational training for disadvantaged women. Its a unique step to change the cultural norms in Lumbini. Nepal. Girls in Lumbini are often pressured into forced marriages as young as 10 years old. They face a life starting with teenage pregnancy, no education, poverty and forced labor only to perpetuate this cycle. Lumbini is less than one hour by car from the India border and a well known route for human trafficking. UNICEF has identified the Lumbini area in Nepal as one of the most critical zones for girls discrimination and child marriage problems. National education statistics report that only 33% of students in Nepal are girls, but this figure is even lower in Lumbini where the average female literacy rate is one of the lowest in the world at 18%. In poor families educating girls is seen as wasted time. Lack of girls education contributes to several other problems such as: lack of basic health; severe malnutrition; family hygiene; ignored medical care and high infant / mother mortality rates. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hw8p-63gmg Karuna means compassion and is part of the spiritual path of Buddhism and Jainism. It is called compassion
because it shelters and embraces the distressed. - The Buddha.
7. What is the biggest thing you've learned working with the College?
Ive learned a different culture, a different religion and most of all; Ive learned how fortunate we all are with our quality of life in Canada.