Students Rebuild Award Winner Krishna Mondal

Krishna Mondal is a 31-year-old from Kalighat, India, and one of five young women who won the Students Rebuild Award. Krishna and the other women from Somaliland, Kenya, Cambodia and Sierra Leone each received $10,000 to continue helping women and girls in their communities.
Krishna won the award for her work with New Light to counteract the cycle of forced prostitution in Kolkata, India.
Krishna's upbringing motivated her to fight for the rights of women and to save young girls from a life of prostitution. While Krishna was still in her mother's womb, her father was stabbed to death by a robber. Krishna's mother was a left with a five-year-old son and a daughter on the way. With no one to turn to for help, her mother was forced into prostitution. "If the story of the beginning of my life does not motivate me to fight for the rights of women and saving of young girls --- if this is not my mission in life --- I shall not be worth my salt," said Krishna.
Learn more about Krishna: bit.ly/19QdJvF
Learn more about New Light: www.newlightindia.org/

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this is amazing and very touching, too. thank you for your engagement in young girls lifes! I admire this young womens courage and inteligence and sensitivy.