On day two the routine was just as grueling as day one.
Sleeping in barely comfortable accommodations with night temperature reaching
zero degrees after a tiring full day of visiting several distantly placed
schools, travelling very shoddy, bumpy roads, cut dangerously close to
mountainsides giving the vehicles and
the drivers amargin of only a few feet
from the precipitous edge.
It was an early rise for everyone and a quick breakfast.
Several schools had to be covered today and losing no time Dr MubinaAgboatwalla,Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi herded her
team in to the waiting vehicle and off they went.
Everyone in the team from HOPE, an
educational NGO in Pakistan curled up against the cold. All of
them being from Karachi were not only unaccustomed to the winter cold of Azad
Kashmir but also to the geography and terrain of the high mountains of the
region. The first stop was at HOPE’s School at Gari Dupatta. It is a small town
that has evolved over the years around a military base. Small bazaars cropped
up first and then residential settlements and eventually everything that goes
with a reasonable population including hospitals and schools. One of the
pioneers in establishing schools in this difficult area has been HOPE, an
educational NGO in Pakistan whose efforts and contributions in
the education sector has been appreciated by all .
The students and teachers welcomed the HOPE team.The
teachers were asked about the syllabus methodology, attendance, results etc.
And the students were also randomly asked questions from their syllabus and
questions related to recent happenings in AJK & Pakistan and around the
world and their awareness was generally found satisfactory.
After the official work was done, DrMubinaAgboatwalla,
Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi personally
distributed warm clothing, coloring books and pencils, sweets and samosas and
even biryani amongst all the students and teachers. It was a big treat for
everyone and it turned into a very happy occasion.
Our next stop was Mailsi where the whole routine was
replicated making all the students very happy with the goodies they received.
Already exhausted the team made a last stop at the school
in DhaniBakalan where the students and
teachers had been waiting all day long
for HOPE’s team to arrive. Everything
went very well here too and DrMubinaAgboatwalla,
Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi distributed
warm clothing and all the other goodies that were brought for the students and
teachers of this school.
Completely tired, it was now time for HOPE’s team to once
again board their vehicle and descend from the mountains for their long jurney
to their base in Muzaffarabad.
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