The ugly, well-known secret about how South Asian women feel pressured to birth a son was just about to be exposed, but the Kumar-Ratta sisters have been way ahead of the curve. "It was at a summer conference I went to last year, in British Columbia, that I first learnt about the gender imbalance issue that afflicts some parts of the world, including those inhabited by South Asians," recalled Ankita. She was shocked, horrified, particularly when she realized it happens even here in Canada, and in the communities in which we live. "So we - my sister and I - decided to do something about it." Thus started Save the Girls, an NGO set up by the sisters to campaign against the selective abortion of female foetuses in many parts of the world, "including, sadly, in Canada and the US." South Asian Focus
Unrelated organization: Save Girl Child
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