IRAN. Khuzestan. 2018. Girls on their way to Bibi Maryam Boarding school in Sardasht city. They spend almost 2 hours on the way from their house in villages to the school. Most of their families are nomads who decided to stay in a village house to help their kids study. The Student spend the whole week in school and the weekend in their house. The families who have chosen this life style will move after their kids final exams. “ We all are great students in this bus and we all want to be a doctor. During the week in school we have to Give our mobiles to our teacher and she will let us have them only 30 minutes a day to call our family. Some of us are engaged but our finances let us to study and have no problems with it.”

The school Bibi Maryam has been named after Sardar Maryam Bakhtiari who was a Nomad Lurish revolutionary and activist of the Iranian Constitutional revoltion. As a military commander, she played a distinguished role when Bakhtiari tribal forces with help of modern arms from German Empire successfully captured Tehran in 1909 as part of the revolutionary campaign to force the central government to establish democratic reforms. The Bibi Maryam boarding school with the capacity of 100 girls students, used to be a boys only school. Now it’s a girls only school since the are more girls in nomads family who would like to continue their education. The headmaster, Mrs. Kiani, believes that even with the difficulties they are facing mostly by the families, they are getting better each year. “The situation had changed during the last 16 years. Families trust us more and more each year and let their daughters to stay here for the night, which is not very common since most of the Bakhtiari families believe that the girls should spend the nights under the same roof with her father of brothers. We struggled a lot, we keep going door to door to get the girls permission from their father to continue their education. Even now they are many girl who get mar