"practice without eating"

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28 July 2025

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.''

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