Quality Education for 10,000 children in Sindh

The teachers had received training in pedagogy which taught them to ask open ended question. This has helped in developing students’ confidence in voicing their views freely about a topic and sharing their understanding of it. 8,299 DIL students in Sindh have already benefited by this training of teachers.

As many rural schools are made with mud plastering of the walls, communities and teachers came together to complete the annual repair and maintenance work of school walls and roof. Minor woodwork and electrical repairs were also completed before the cold winter set in in December.

As part of a program wide initiative, DIL students of Grade VII and VIII worked with adults in their family and neighbourhood, teaching them basic literacy and numeracy as well as some simple but useful everyday things like searching for and saving contacts in their mobile phones, reading expiry dates and telling the time. Students are very proud of their achievements and thoroughly enjoyed the experience where they got to reverse the usual roles and had their elders coming to them for classes. The participants of this activity will be awarded with the solar lights later on.

A Vocational Training Centre of Information Technology was initiated at Sobho Dero School in the afternoon to inculcate the skills of information technology in the girls of underprivileged communities and enabling them to meet the challenges of today’s technological era. In the first batch 12 girls are enrolled. The duration of the course is three months. VTC trainer is IT teacher of this school. Most of the trainees are DIL graduates.

In one of the Sindh schools parents decided to contribute towards an electric water cooler for their school. The PTA met and agreed that a donation fund will be set up for all to contribute what they can and when the funds are sufficient to purchase a water cooler, the PTA will buy it for the school.