Barakat Pakistan has been running since early 2000 serving the refugee community from Afghanistan that has been long settled in Pakistan's Attock district. As of the last academic session 2019-2020, we had 1,542 students of which 721 were girls in 3 co-ed morning schools & 3 female-only evening schools. During the current world-wide crisis Barakat Pakistan needs your help to pay the rent for all three school buildings which house these six schools, even though the schools are currently closed.
As COVID-19 rages across the world, including Pakistan, Barakat Pakistan school operations are affected. While the government of Pakistan requires that all schools be closed we need to continue to pay the rent on our school buildings in anticipation of the day that the schools can re-open. At the same time, we do not have the same fund-raising ability as we once did when COVID-19 did not restrict our movement and person-to-person fundraising efforts.
Your donations will go towards keeping Barakat Pakistan schools open and the buildings paid for until such time that we can resume full-fledged fund-raising efforts in the United States once more. Unlike the United States and other countries around the world, non-profit schools like Barakat's can be evicted from their premises even during this time of the pandemic!
Keeping our schools buildings paid for and ready to open will allow us to maintain the continuity of education that we strive to provide our children. A sudden closure of the school due to lack of rent at this time may leave us high and dry, without another school building in sight, when the time comes to re-open.
