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Daily Video August 01 2017

Ambitious girls ride the waves in Bangladesh's beach town
In the South Asian country of Bangladesh, poverty is widespread and girls are often married in their early teens. However, at the world's longest beach and Bangladesh's only beach town, which has one of the highest rates of poverty in the country, a group of girl surfers feel empowered when they might otherwise be expected to fulfill traditional roles in the house.

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