Goalkeepers was started by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2017 to propel global action and track progress on the United Nation’s Sustainable Developmental Goals. Indian-origin George has lived all her life in the UK, where her grandparents moved from Kerala. I started my campaign in April 2017 after watching a news report about how girls missed school because they can’t afford pads and tampons. She now wants free sanitary products for all girls, and not just girls from low-income families getting free school lunch in the UK. Murad escaped captivity to become the voice of the Yazidi people, including 13,000 Yazidi women still enslaved by the IS.

Source: Hindustan Times September 27, 2018 02:15 UTC