Pakistani School Security Improvements

It is hard to imagine that with only $0.50 cents a day you can put a girl through a year of elementary school. Jamila is 20 years old and is from the People’s Attock Colony, Pakistan. She is currently enrolled in the fifth grade at Barakat Primary School. Jamila has five sisters and four brothers. Her father is unemployed, but two of her brothers are carpet weavers.

Jamila enjoys all her subjects and wants to get an education because an education is the key to success and she wants to live a successful life. She knows that getting an education will give her the opportunity to excel. She also believes that girls and women have the same right to an education, because they have the same rights as men in society.

Jamila’s family shares her vision of education being an opportunity. She believes that an education means knowledge, happiness and a future. Jamila wants to continue her studies after elementary school, and wants whatever profession she chooses to be an opportunity to serve her people and her country. Jamila hopes that society becomes more open-minded and other girls like her continue to see the advantages of schooling.

However since Jamila is already 20 years old she may not get the opportunity to pursue her education past elementary school despite her family supporting her. Since her father is out of work and they are relying on two of her brothers to support their entire family there is a good chance that she may get pulled out of school and married off to help support her family. With your help we are able to ensure that school is a safe place for her to come and learn while she has time. An educated mother is four times more likely to send her own children to school so even if Jamila isn't able to complete school you have helped to give her a gift that she can then pass on to her own children. Afterall education is the only way to lift a family out of poverty and with your help more girls like Jamila will have that opportunity!