A book bus, sports gear, and school supplies for kids in Pakistan
For our Pakistan team, education has been the top priority for years. With one of the highest populations of out-of-school children in the world, Pakistan’s young people need more avenues to see and unleash their potential.
Our team has been focused on removing the many barriers to education, like access to schools and teachers, so families are better able to send their children to school. We’ve enrolled more than 950,000 kids into the formal education system, toward our goal of one million kids in school. Homeschooling and village-centered schools offer more flexible alternatives to the often unaffordable traditional routes, so over the years we’ve worked on ways to get kids learning, no matter the format.
As Covid-19 became a threat to both the health of Pakistan’s families and to their very livelihood. the team saw a need to rethink their approach. But the creativity and adaptive qualities of our teams made adopting a new model for education a natural one; we were already designing new methods to reach more kids.
Everyone stepped up to the challenge to be a part of the country-wide response to Covid-19. Thus, despite the uncertainty surrounding us, breakthroughs like Radio Muallim were born, bringing school lessons via radio waves to kids throughout the country. And today, the breakthroughs continue. We’re keeping education moving by bringing the things kids need to cultivate a love of learning and activity—like books, sports gear, and school room essentials—straight to them.
