Upgradation of HOPE School and Vocational Center, Zia Colony, Karachi.

Every day adds up a little more to life. With HOPE Pakistan, thousands of people in despair are getting privileges everyday, which helps them keeping their hopes alive. HOPE does not focus on only one aspect of life, in fact, it believes in integration and aims to provide quality education and health with vocational training to the underserved. HOPE's mission is to develop a society in which individuals are aware of their basic rights and are provided with equal opportunities to access health, educational and vocational facilities.

HOPE believes in educating the masses and providing them vocational training so that with education, they can also acquire skills to get better job opportunities. Taking this viewpoint along,  HOPE built a formal school in Zia Colony, Korangi, which was inaugurated in 2006, targeting the underprivileged children of the community. Since then HOPE has been providing quality education to hundreds of children, making them capable enough to compete the world, lead a better life and be beneficial for the society.  Therefore, HOPE deems upgradation a necessary step in order to keep up with the advance educational system. Though, it has been made sure that such up-gradation should not affect the fee structure (i.e. Rs. 60 per month) so that children belonging to underprivileged  families could continue their education. HOPE provides them with free uniform, texts-books, stationary and health facilities as well. Other than that, the vocational center has also been set up in Zia Colony which helps providing income generation activities.

HOPE’s project “Upgradation of HOPE School and Vocational Center, Zia colony, Karachi” has been approved by the government of Japan. This project will begin in September 2012 and it consists of building new rooms, improving vocational center and availability of conveyance for the staff and students. In this regard, 12 more rooms will be built. Students will be able to go to field trips and also they can visit to other schools. So that they could interact with other schools' students and avail the facilities offered by those schools, such as computer labs, Science labs etc. Currently 750 children are studying in the morning and evening shifts and through this project 250 more students will be able to get enrolled in HOPE Zia Colony School. 

Additionally, HOPE considers the safety of its school children as a primary concern. Therefore, in this regard, it will be made sure that children will not enter into the premises where the construction is taking place. Since majority of the construction will take place on the roof, therefore, that area will be cordoned off.

Hence, the project will not only be beneficial for the students of school but also for the boys and girls who are getting free vocational services. This project is a constructive step towards building an educated, healthy, skilled and self-aware society, which is the vision of HOPE!