Provide education to 1800 Afghan refugee children

Summary

Helping socially excluded 15 Afghan refugee female youth to take a lead role in providing educational services to 1800 destitute Afghan refugee children in Balochistan.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

• No opportunities for education for a large number of Afghan Refugee children in Pakistan • Absence of caring adults • Children’s exposure to violence, crime, drugs • High prevalence of gender disparity The project will aim at taping the local resources in shape of educated afghan refugee female youth to set up a community based educational system for their own communities. The program will leave a strong positive effect on the servers, learners, their families and on their communities.

How will this project solve this problem?

Training and engaging socially excluded Afghan Refugee female youth for setting up a community based educational system for Afghan Refugee children. The project activities will begin by sensitizing parents and key stakeholders.

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will help 14 socially excluded Afghan refugee female youth to re-brand their image in the society by protecting and providing educational services to 1800 destitute Afghan refugee children as well as inspiring other young girls.

Project Message

We should stop treating young people as empty vessels in which we try to pour our wisdom; we need to look at them as the most promising resource available to us in meeting societal needs.
- Ali Raza Khan, Ashoka Fellow; Director & Founder of YES Pakistan

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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