Kathmandu, June 8 -- Growing up in a family deeply engaged in social justice, Aishworya Shrestha was familiar with the notion and conversations about inequality, injustice, and social responsibility from an early age.

Understanding her father's work as a woman and child rights activist, and her mother's as a former social studies teacher, she developed awareness of the disparities that shape people's lives before entering the field herself.

"I grew up knowing that not everyone had the same opportunities," she says. And along with these conversations and exposure, she decided to stop being a bystander to marginalisation.

Today, Shrestha is a social worker and social science researcher from Nepal. She is a PhD student in Social Work at C...