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Every year, Dali Schonfelder (17) and her family travelled to India to a rural village in the outskirts of Mumbai. The year Dali turned 13, she returned to find her friends out of school as the government stops paying for uniforms once students reach the age of 12. Students who can not afford the mandatory uniform are forbidden to attend school and can no longer receive an education. Wanting to do something to help her friends, together with her younger brother Finn they founded Nalu, a clothing line that gives a school uniform with the sale of every 4 products. To date, they have given over 8000 uniforms across India, Kenya and Indonesia and have another 5000 scheduled this year. Their goal is to scale to give 2000 uniforms per month by 2020. Their impact has been tremendous, not only are more students attending school, but academic performance has increased and teenage pregnancy has decreased. Nalu employs local tailors to manufacture the uniforms, ensuring the full cycle sustainability of their impact on t