The HOPE Team Visits Home School in Kashmir

Every year HOPE team visits its flourishing projects which include the home schools of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). These home schools were installed with unshakable determination to help IDPs, refugees and other resident in the surrounding area to help them avail their right to education. This demanding project is led by the guidance of Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla child specialist in Karachi.

Informal schools play a vital role in educating children who have largely been ignored in Pakistan. These schools provide young children a chance to receive basic primary and secondary education. It also creates an employment opportunities for educated girls in the community, who can teach in these schools and earn a living.

Approximately 900 students are enrolled in HOPE schools, Muzaffarabad and Hatiyan Bala-district of Azad Jammu Kashmir. The literacy rate in this area is also very low, resulting in a population whose basic necessities are met by doing menial jobs. These remote areas are inaccessible and mountains covered with snow and heavy rain during the winter season made it difficult to reach such districts. 

The HOPE team visited its three schools of Muzaffarabad district, Malsi (primary school), Nagra Gari Duppatta (secondary school) and Dhani Balan (primary school). School bags and stationary were also distributed among school children. In addition, result ceremony was also conducted in Nagra Gari Duppatta (secondary School) and trophies were awarded to the position holders. Different programs were held in which students presented skits and welcomed the guests.

With all of HOPE’s efforts the children of AJK are being provided with a quality education that they had previously been deprived of and these annual visits encouraged them to excel in their potentials and elevate their living standard.