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Posted On: August 13th 2026, 06:02 pm

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Tough day made tougher in this heat. Appreciating the team as always 🧡⁣ ⁣ #McLarenF1
Hannah recently broke a bracket and the fear of breaking another one has made Hannah avoid some of her crunchy safe foods, making eating even harder. Her orthodontist reassured her that fixing a broken bracket is his job, and it should be the least of her worries. He’ll happily fix as many as he needs to, as long as she’s eating. Knowing that it’s okay if it happens, and that he can take care of it, helped her feel better. Support and accommodations like this mean everything. A huge thank you to Dr. Bruno and staff for always making Hannah feel seen and supported. 💜 @michelledorit
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rip nana patekar, visuals from his final rites at his pune farmhouse
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If you want to know what determination looks like, meet Shabana Basij-Rasikh.   Shabana was six years old when the Taliban first seized power 30 years ago and banned girls in Afghanistan from attending school. Undeterred, she continued her education in secret schools across Kabul, then went on to graduate magna cum laude from Middlebury College in Vermont and earn a master’s degree in public policy from Oxford.   But Shabana didn’t stop at pursuing her own education. While still in college, she co-founded @sola.afghanistan, Afghanistan’s first boarding school for girls, which attracted students from nearly every province in the country.   When the Taliban returned to power in 2021, they shut girls out of the classroom once again. Yet Shabana fought to keep her school alive, leading the SOLA community’s evacuation to Rwanda.   In the years since, the Taliban have enacted a brutal campaign against women’s rights, barring them from universities, most jobs, traveling without a male relative, and even speaking and singing in public. But Shabana has not given up on her mission. SOLA continues to educate Afghan girls in exile from its campus in Rwanda, and it reaches girls in Afghanistan through online learning.   I’ve been honored to get to know Shabana through Pivotal’s Global Leaders initiative, which provides visionary changemakers with funds to support work they believe in, and I couldn’t think of a more important person to interview for International Day of the Girl. She knows exactly what’s at stake when girls are denied an education—and what’s possible when they can get one.   Read my Q&A with @sbasijrasikh at the link in my bio. #internationaldayofthegirl
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