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To Be Somebody

Everyone has dreams.

Ask children, and they've often already chosen heroes and aspirations. Ask parents, and they hold even bigger dreams for their children. For those living in a country of opportunity, dreams are commonly nurtured, then born.

But there’s absolutely no one who dreams of a future where they’re uneducated or living in poverty. Of being shamed, denied, and considered a “nobody.” But many are born into circumstances in which dreams seem preposterous. For those, it takes hard-held aspirations and unfaltering courage to even dream, much less achieve those dreams. Such are the women I met in Lae, Papua New Guinea.

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