Educate the Most Underserved Children of Pakistan

Khoj School for Community Education is a model of integrative and relevant gender just education that breaks the curricular barrier that divides knowledge into mutually exclusive subjects. Linkages are developed and a teaching plan is woven around a specific phenomenon which is very close to the learners' experience and reality. Children find it easier to learn science, agriculture, mathematics, nutrition, cooking, language, social values and citizenship with a common context.They sail smoothly through the process of learning. 

Parents and the community were invited to see and experience the advantages of the new approach and method which provokes creativity and curiosity, facilitates conceptual understanding and leads to logical thinking.

To mark the international children's day, mothers and other family members from eight villages were invited to participate in a program organized to share with them the level and quality of children's learning.  The whole program was planned, planned and presented by children themselves.

Children presented their knowledge and learning in the form of songs, role plays and drama. Their performances showed their language skills, expression, confidence, conceptual understanding, presentation and organizational skills. 

Towards the end of the program, mothers expressed their satisfaction and happiness on the performance of their children. They also shared the compliments of their guests outside their villages about the high-quality education imparted by Khoj School in the remote and socially and environmentally challenged tiny village. With beaming eyes, they also expressed their pride on the virtual teaching center, library and science lab in the school, something not known in other schools in the area. 

Your generous support has made all this possible. We thank you all. Your continued support is the lifeline of the school.

The girls at Khoj School for Community Education were in a state of euphoria. I had never seen them so excited, energized and happy before. It was a day of personal freedom that could open and augment countless opportunities for self-actualization.

On 27th September 2017, Khoj-Society for People’s Education made a humble beginning by making two bicycles available to the girls of Khoj School for Community Education situated in village Thathi Bhanguaan in the province of Punjab in Pakistan. Girls come from eight villages to the school whose mobility is restricted and there are many girls who wish to study but cannot do that because there is nobody to pick and drop them from their homes to schools and back.

The bicycle project also aims at improving girls’ self-image and self-belief that they are capable of doing everything which boys can do and they can also perform even better if they strive to do that.

The project was inaugurated by the once national champion of table tennis Asma who is a great source of inspiration, especially for girls.

The girls were asked to try and master the art of cycling. They were told there is nothing wrong in faltering and falling but if one has self-belief one will emerge victorious overcoming all the hurdles. It was great fun watching struggling, failing, trying, helping each other, improving, anxiously waiting for another turn. Not all girls got the permission to cycle in the villages but there was no bar on them to learn how to cycle.

They are expected to be the road in a week’s time and we are very confident that this would open countless avenues of fulfilling their dreams of ‘if I were a sparrow……..’- a story they wrote recently. Each story was full of boundless imagination and dreams that also reflected the restrictions they live with.

Offering a vehicle of empowerment, self-dependence and self-actualization was our dream at Khoj. We are so grateful to our supporters and donors who are helping us making our dreams a reality. For this initiative, we are grateful especially to Shoes by Shaherazad at www.shaherazad.com.

We know just two cycles are not enough but we are confident that your continued support will help us achieve many milestones.