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Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...vaccinate-children-against-polio-8805677.html
Angels of Karachi: The Pakistani women who risk death every day to vaccinate children against polio
'I continued after my niece was shot. We all die one day, so why not as a brave person?'
Andrew Buncombe Author Biography
Karachi
Monday 09 September 2013
Rabail Mehar was at work when she got the news. Four women, polio vaccination workers like her, had been shot dead at three locations in Karachi within the space of 20 minutes. A fifth female worker had been killed in Peshawar.
?I started crying,? said Rabail, who had only been in the position a month. ?I decided I was going to quit.?
As it was, the 25-year-old did not resign on that dark, murderous day last December. Even though her mother and father wanted her to quit, that evening, with a ?cool head?, she realised her role as part of the country?s campaign to end polio was more to her than just a job. It took three days to win over her parents.
Across Pakistan there are thousands of women like Rabail Mehar...
Angels of Karachi: The Pakistani women who risk death every day to vaccinate children against polio
'I continued after my niece was shot. We all die one day, so why not as a brave person?'
Andrew Buncombe Author Biography
Karachi
Monday 09 September 2013
Rabail Mehar was at work when she got the news. Four women, polio vaccination workers like her, had been shot dead at three locations in Karachi within the space of 20 minutes. A fifth female worker had been killed in Peshawar.
?I started crying,? said Rabail, who had only been in the position a month. ?I decided I was going to quit.?
As it was, the 25-year-old did not resign on that dark, murderous day last December. Even though her mother and father wanted her to quit, that evening, with a ?cool head?, she realised her role as part of the country?s campaign to end polio was more to her than just a job. It took three days to win over her parents.
Across Pakistan there are thousands of women like Rabail Mehar...