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I photographed Umetesi in Kigali, Rwanda, at the "Through the Eyes of Hope" program where every afternoon she watched with wide eyes as I taught photography to older children, mostly boys. While Rwanda has one of the highest literacy rates for girls and women in Africa, Umetesi still confronts some of the issues girls struggle with all over Africa--the tendency of poor families to spend available money on the education of boys, the expectation that girls will carry out domestic and household work and the pressure for girls to marry young, particularly where they are seen as an economic burden on families.

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I photographed Umetesi in Kigali, Rwanda, at the "Through the Eyes of Hope" program where every afternoon she watched with wide eyes as I taught photography to older children, mostly boys. While Rwanda has one of the highest literacy rates for girls and women in Africa, Umetesi still confronts some of the issues girls struggle with all over Africa--the tendency of poor families to spend available money on the education of boys, the expectation that girls will carry out domestic and household work and the pressure for girls to marry young, particularly where they are seen as an economic burden on families.