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The Digital Sisterhood

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Reda Khan is a French teacher who finds herself struggling when the paths of her career and her religion are torn apart.

This episode was brought to you by Beautiful Light Studios. Recorded at MH Studios Toronto

Executive Producer: Muna Scekomar

Recording Engineer: Jonathan Lillo

Podcast intern: Nima Harun

Graphic Designer: Wasima Farah

Project manager: Yasmin Mohamud

Marketing Manager: Sawsan Abdillahi

The Digital Sisterhood is partnering with Helping Hand for Relief and Development to sponsor a Skills Development and Livelihood Center in Madogo, Kenya for women and youth living in poverty.

Skills trainings empowers beneficiaries to take charge of their own lives with dignity and determination.

Our goal is to sponsor 138 students, that is 138 women and youth who will learn employable skills and gain financial stability. Help us in making that happen by visiting www.hhrd.org/Sisterhood to learn more and donate.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	As-Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakati friends.
0:05.6	It is your sister and friend, Adar, and you're listening to the Digital Sisterhood podcast.
0:14.2	So I'm going to tell you a story and this story is about a girl named Rita.
0:19.0	Rita was born in a city in Pakistan called Islamabad, a city popularly known as a city
0:24.3	of Islam, a city of peace.
0:26.9	A city with a spread of natural terraces and summer green meadows, she had the best
0:32.1	kind of childhood.
0:33.7	Well lots of love and laughter, grandparents, aunts and uncles.
0:37.8	She was also the eldest of three at the time.
0:40.7	Although she might not have all of the toys or candies I could get her ascoe or dream
0:45.2	of, she still had the best thing life could offer.
0:49.1	Love.
0:50.1	We lived at my grandfather's house, like my maternal grandfather's house.
0:55.2	And I remember we had rabbits in our house and I was really little, my mom told me I was
0:59.8	like three.
1:00.8	And I was like, ooh, I do remember stuff from my childhood.
1:05.2	So when my dad was there, he got us like pet rabbits.
1:08.8	And when he had to go back to Canada, we had to give our rabbits away.
1:15.3	Growing up, I always knew that Pakistan was not home.
1:19.2	My dad was never there because he was either in US or he was in Canada.
1:22.7	But I knew that we one day will have to join him.
1:26.4	So wherever we were living, either at my grandfather's house, like my mom's side or my dad's
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