Archive for July, 2010

Shaheen Women?s Welfare and Resource Organisation: Encouraging Women to Rise Higher

“I was only 16 years old, but my family did not have the money and we badly needed some. I did not know anything about marriage nor did I know who I was getting married to all I wanted to do was make some money. I thought all people in the Gulf were prosperous. I had no idea what I was getting into and suffered terribly for it.” These are the words of Nazia who got married to a 75 year old Sheik from a middle-eastern country. Her story is like that of many girls in the old...
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