Tajik Sisters Go From The Scrap Heap To Boxing Gold
Umeda Ghanieva, 14, and her sister Amina, 16, from Kulob in southern Tajikistan, have already won several boxing competitions. Just a year ago, the sisters and their widowed mother were collecting scrap metal to survive, but can now pursue their passion after benefactors saw an RFE/RL documentary and bought them a home.