HOPE’s Home Schools : A Case Study Of Aasia, A Woman With A Strong Will And Courage.

‘Where there is a will, there is always a way’ , is the oft repeated saying but only a rare breed puts this to test and Aasia a mother of two tiny children happens to be one of them

With a network of formal,semiformal and home schools spreading from the coastal commercial city of Karachi  in the very south, into rural Sindh, rural Punjab and all the way up to the mountains of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, the very north of Pakistan – HOPE an educational  NGO in Pakistan,  has been very determined and very focused in providing quality education to the general masses, especially in areas where schools are non-existent and  education is literally unheard of. Since its inception, HOPE an educational  NGO in Pakistan, has tirelessly endeavoured,  within its means, to eradicate illiteracy in Pakistan – one of the few rare countries in the world whose literacy rate is actually going down.

Aasia’s story unfolded in the very outer fringes of the city of Karachi – a place not easily accessible due to bad roads and where  water is not easily available,  let alone good drinking water. A place called Rehri Goth where no schools other than HOPE’s home school exists.

Aasia, herself an illiterate was married off very early in her life  to an illiterate husband and before she knew it she was already a mother of two children – a son and a daughter. Finding no means  for improvement for herself and her family, specially her children she turned to HOPE’s school where she was welcomed enthusiastically. Despite stiff resistance from her in-laws she joined HOPE’s home school as the very first step in her quest for self-improvement and  for the betterment of her family. Although  her husband encourages and supports her in going to school, which is very rare and very commendable, she still has to bring her two little children to school with her as her mother-in-law wants to have nothing to do with her getting any kind of education.

With strict instructions from Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi every assistance will be provided to Aasia in getting the best education now and also in the future.

As  always Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi has been the driving force in setting up these schools and in ensuring they are successfully and efficiently run  – which is why these schools have been so popular in the areas where they have been established and enrollment of students have been increasing constantly.