By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Mumbai: In a good sign of breaking shackles, about a dozen Muslim girls have joined a nursing course offered by a local charitable trust Anjuman Khairul Islam in Mumbai.
This they did ignoring strong opposition from some quarters. The trust was asked to stop the course but its students and their parents supported the program. “We responded because we wanted to groom their daughters to serve the sick, not to walk on the ramp,” says the institute’s director, Mohammed Arshad. The girls had to survive severe pressure. “My mother was against sending me for this course. She feared I would get spoiled,” says Anjum Sheikh, daughter of an STD operator in Nasik. Almost all of these students are from impoverished families. Some are from an orphanage in Mumbra, a Muslim ghetto.