Editorial photo #12596376 Human Interest
Empowering Rural Girls Through Football In Nandail
From left, Shikha and her daughter Tania, 13, sit inside their one-room home in Nandail, Mymensingh, Bangladesh, on July 26, 2025. Tania trains at a grassroots football academy that offers girls a path out of poverty and early marriage. Shikha says, ''I give her an egg in the morning. She needs more nutritious food to play a game like football, but sometimes I can't manage to cook on time with my other three children and sometimes can't arrange good food for money. She often goes to practice without eating properly.'' (Photo by Syed Mahamudur Rahman/NurPhoto)
