HOPE’s Muzaffarabad Schools: Annual Visit By The Chairperson And HOPE’s Team. DAY ONE.

Each year Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi along with a selected team of  HOPE’s personnel at the head office in Karachi make their long journey  to the distant lofty peaks of Azad Jammu  & Kashmir.  The trip is never easy for  HOPE, an educational NGO in Pakistan specially with the long train journey from Karachi to Rawalpindi via Lahore and then a very tiring  onward bus-ride to Muzaffarabad.  But HOPE, an educational NGO in Pakistan is never deterred by such hardships and actually take it as an adventure along with fulfilling the needs and objectives of the trip           .

After settling into respective accommodations in Muzaffarabad and taking a well deserved rest and sleep the first night in AJK,  the team was ready the next morning  for visits to HOPE’s  home schools , most of them nestling high on different  mountain peaks.

Day One  in Azad Kashmir began with an early breakfast.  The transport arranged by Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi was already waiting. They  boarded the vehicle and started their ride to the first of the schools  located in a place called Chaprian. Not an easy place to visit by any means.
The young students at the school were expecting HOPE’s team and welcomed them as they got to the school. Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi spoke at length with the children and the teachers.                                                  Later the team distributed pastries and samosas to all the children. 

The team  later visited two more schools at Dharian Kar Bani and Narhotar where the process of  evaluating the teachers and students continued besides distribution of pastries and samosas, colouring books , pencils and warm clothing for  the students who were all overjoyed at receiving the goodies.  Large and small stuffed toys were also  distributed amongst the  children.