Mala Kumari is 18 years old. She lives in Mathiapur in Patna. Belonging to the Maha Dalit community, she says life has never been easy for her. She says girls of her community face untold discrimination and are denied nutrition, education and mobility. She says she has been talking to women in her community and encouraging them to enrol their children in schools and prevent early marriages. This could be the start of a new journey for people in my community and I want to see it undertaken, she says.