Krishna Chaudhry, 16 year old girl is inspiring her classmates to seek independence through education in rural Uttar Pradesh.  She has been an inspiration for her classmates by challenging them to refuel This is reported in Voice of America article titled “Girl’s School in Uttar Pradesh Reshapes Rural India”.

This is a great demonstration that empowering rural girls is an effective way of bringing positive change to rural India. “I ask them to go to school and make their own destiny,” Krishna says in the article. “I try explaining to them that if they don’t go to school the society will suppress them. I tell them to stand for their own rights and make your own career and not to leave everything in the hands of the fate,” she adds.  As for Krishna’s personal inspiration – “that one is easy,” she says, she looks toward women world leaders like US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.