{"id":2982,"date":"2019-10-11T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T04:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.educategirls.ngo\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2023-09-05T10:32:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T05:02:09","slug":"i-owe-my-success-to-my-fathers-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/blog\/i-owe-my-success-to-my-fathers-love\/","title":{"rendered":"I Owe My Success To My Father&#8217;s Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/theme1-final.jpg?w=791\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2983\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neeta\u2019s\nmother died in childbirth. In such cases, it is common in the community to\nconsider such a child cursed. However, instead of shunning her, or seeing her\nas cursed, Neeta\u2019s father thought of his daughter as a blessing.&nbsp; She was\nhis only child, and he loved her.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many\nneighbors asked him why he would keep a cursed child in the house, especially a\ngirl.&nbsp; They told him that \u201cbringing up a girl is like watering a\nneighbor\u2019s garden,\u201d and that it would be best for him to start over.&nbsp;\nNeeta\u2019s father refused this notion, as he could never imagine harming his\ndaughter whom he loved so much.&nbsp; He raised her with love, and worked hard\nto make sure she had everything she needed.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neeta was the only girl in her community to study until class 12.\u00a0 Because of this, she was recruited to be an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/\">Educate Girls<\/a><\/strong> Team Balika.\u00a0Neeta became a role model for other girls in the community, who had started to look up to her.\u00a0After some time, she was hired as a secretary at a local government office, but she still volunteers with Educate Girls.\u00a0 She is able to support herself financially, something which is almost unheard of for other women in her community.\u00a0 At first, most of the women questioned her motives, asking why a woman would ever want to work outside when her place is in the home.\u00a0 However, they began to see the way that Neeta took care of her father, and they were in awe.\u00a0 Where people once had long-standing beliefs that girls, especially girls who were educated, grew up to leave their families behind, Neeta was showing them that they were wrong.\u00a0 Neeta is proof that a girl from the village can add value to not only her family, but to her surrounding community as well.\u00a0 When asked to whom she owes her success, Neeta replied, \u201cI owe my success to my father\u2019s love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neeta\u2019s mother died in childbirth. In such cases, it is common in the community to consider such a child cursed. However, instead of shunning her, or seeing her as cursed, Neeta\u2019s father thought of his daughter as a blessing.&nbsp; She was his only child, and he loved her.&nbsp; Many neighbors asked him why he would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voices","category-from-the-archives-2015"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5748,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions\/5748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educategirls.ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}