By Anahita Sajjad | Project Leader
Shehersaaz is working with public schools in Pakistan to promote environmental awareness, natural resource conservation, climate resilience, and practical learning. Our school-based interventions include the development of kitchen gardens, environmental education, and first-aid and safety training for students and school staff.
As we expand this work to underserved schools, we aim to ensure that students have not only awareness of environmental challenges but also the facilities and practical tools to understand and respond to them.
The Need
Anjuman Faizul Islam Boys School in Rawalpindi is a historic educational institution housed in a building approximately 170 years old, situated within a busy urban market. The school administration approached Shehersaaz seeking support to establish a functional science laboratory for its students.
Following a site assessment, our design team found that the designated laboratory space was in significantly deteriorated condition, with chipped paint, damaged surfaces, ageing infrastructure, and an overall environment unsuitable for practical science education.
Given the limited funding available for the intervention, the initial allocation was directed towards rehabilitating the laboratory space itself, ensuring that the room could provide a safe, functional, and dignified learning environment. This included addressing the most critical interior and infrastructural requirements rather than investing the limited funds in laboratory equipment.
The Opportunity
The physical space has now been prepared, but the laboratory remains incomplete without essential scientific equipment and learning materials.
We are therefore seeking donor support to equip the laboratory with the basic apparatus, instruments, and educational resources required for students to conduct practical experiments and translate classroom learning into hands-on experience.
Why This Matters
For students in public-sector schools, access to functional science laboratories can be transformative. A properly equipped laboratory can:
The room has been restored. What it needs now is the opportunity to come alive as a laboratory.
A contribution towards laboratory equipment will directly translate into practical learning opportunities for students and a long-term investment in public education. Through this intervention, we hope to demonstrate how targeted support can transform existing public-school infrastructure into meaningful spaces for learning, discovery, and environmental stewardship.
By Anahita Sajjad | Project Leader
By Anahita Sajjad | Project Leader
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