By ADRIENNE NETTLES – Star-Telegram
GRAPEVINE — Scattered on a table in Sarosha Hansraj’s home are pictures of Muslim girls about her own age — miles away in Afghanistan.
As she looks down at the photos, Sarosha speaks about the girls who attend school in Khost, a poverty-stricken province that is thick with Taliban forces.
“I believe knowledge is the most precious gift from God, and I believe that education is the only way out of poverty,” said Sarosha, 10, a fifth-grader at North Hills Preparatory School in Irving.
For the past 1 1/2 years, Sarosha has been working to provide shoes, socks, backpacks and other school supplies to Muslim girls through Children Care for Children, an organization she created.
Since she began, Sarosha has helped about 383 Muslim girls at Darnami Girls School, said Sarfaraz Hansraj, Sarosha’s father. Money raised by his daughter is sent to Afghanistan with the help of the Partnership for the Education of Children in Afghanistan, he said.
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