“I had never seen a Rs5,000 note, let alone hold one in my hands,” says Hameeda Hasan.
In her early 20s, Hameeda is one of the first girls in her family as well as her neighbourhood to have stepped out of the confines of her house for work and earn Rs7,000 per month.
A resident of Ibrahim Hyderi, a coastal village on the outskirts of Karachi, she lives in a partially constructed two-room house with her parents and eight siblings.
Education having never chanced to cross her path, a
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