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

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.

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.                                                    

HOPE’s Zia Colony School : Target Inc’s Workshop on Child Abuse And Distribution Of Certificates:

Target  Inc. Pakistan, a direct affliliate of  a major retailing chain store in the US which enjoys a very exclusive and dedicated clientele, volunteered  for an awareness workshop at HOPE’s Zia Colony school to inculcate confidence and courage by equipping  the students with detailed information on how to handle, manage and  protect themselves from various difficult situations including  ‘child abuse’.

HOPE an educational  NGO in Pakistan,  has in the past benefitted from various support programs provided by Target and welcomed their current offer.

HOPE  an educational  NGO in Pakistan,  collaborated with Target and the workshop was successfully carried out and at the end of the program selected students were awarded certificates and  also entrusted with the additional  responsibility to protect and shield  others from child abuse, to reject  it completely and report it to superior authorities so that  appropriate  action may be taken against the culprits.

HOPE’s schools have been strictly instructed by  Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi that any form of child abuse will not be tolerated at any level.

All administrators have also been advised by   Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi to immediately report to higher authorities if any such incident related to child abuse ever occurred at any of HOPE’s schools or within families of HOPE’s  students so that proper, timely action may be taken.

HOPE’s Muzaffarabad Schools : Gifts of Books & Stationery And Pouches of Sweets for Students of HOPE’s Muzaffarabad Schools.

As in the past, Fahim’s Schooling System, finding out about the forthcoming visit of the Chairperson and accompanying staff  to all HOPE’s Schools in Azad Jammu & Kashmir, once again very magnanimously stepped forward with a  welcome helping hand by donating books, stationery in the form of coloring books and coloring pencils and also with pouches containing candy and sweets for the children of HOPE’s AJK schools.

HOPE, an educational NGO in Pakistanhttp://hope-ngo.com/Education/NorthernPakistanHomeSchools.aspx , in an effort  to eradicate illiteracy has set up formal, semi formal and home schools to regions  as diverse and far flung as Muzaffargarh, southern Punjab and to the very  far northern reaches of Pakistan, the mountains of Azad Jammu & Kashmir. And each year  HOPE’s related workers and Chairperson make  a visit to the farthest schools to evaluate the functioning, quality and  efficiency of each individual school.

HOPE, an educational NGO in Pakistan , has  a strong and last bond with Fahim’s Schooling Systems and as always appreciates the  support and assistance provided by them.

As always Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist inKarachi 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. 

Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist inKarachi  has always maintained that the education provided to the children of HOPE’s home schools  should be of excellent quality and all reading materials, such as books etc  are all free of cost.

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.

HOPE’s Zia Colony School: Aman Foundation’s Workshop on Entrepreunership.

HOPE’s Zia Colony Secondary School has an exemplary reputation in all of Korangi as provider of much needed quality  education to the  children. It is a primary to secondary school capably run by Mrs Ayesha and attracts many social organizations  endeavouring to better  the  condition of the society as a whole and of the community where  the school is located, in particular. HOPE is an educational  NGO in Pakistan and the  latest visitors at HOPE’s Zia Colony School were Aman Foundation’s mentors and  and Trainers with a specific program of sowing the seeds of entrepreunership in the young minds of the students.  The students were given  extremely practical  insights into ways and means of  achieving  self-employment  and how to apply their education to generate incomes independently as young entrepreneur. HOPE, an educational NGO in Pakistan has always maintained a very high level of motivation for  the students of HOPE schools and welcomes such programs to further enhance their information and equip  them further to become better citizens of Pakistan.

HOPE runs several formal , informal and as many as 200 home schools under the guidance and leadership of Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi who 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.

Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi  has always maintained that the education provided to the children of HOPE’s  schools  should be of excellent quality and all reading materials, such as books etc  are all free of cost.

HOPE’s Zia Colony Hospital & School: Visited By Students Of Liaquat College Of Medicine And Dentistry.

Students of  Liaquat  College Of Medicine  & Dentistry  visted HOPE’s Zia Colony Hospital to get a feel  of how an NGO manages and runs  a Hospital with such efficiency. HOPE is a health oriented NGO in Pakistan  and has several hospitals in the slum, underprivileged  areas of Karachi and HOPE’s Zia Colony Hospital  is one of them. Though small in size, this hospital has a very substantial turnover of patients annually – specifically catering to the urgent needs of maternal and child health care covering a very large area where such facilities are otherwise nonexistent. Other larger, distant  facilities are not accessible to the low-income residents of such areas.

For the students  this visit was an eye-opener as they witnessed the  full  functioning of  a very busy hospital. They visited all the departments and met admitted patients  and OPD patients and interviewed  them  for their records. Dr Abida , the administrator,  made all arrangements including appraising them of  HOPE’s history as a Health oriented NGO in Pakistan  and showed them visuals of  HOPE’s other establishments.

 

The students also visited HOPE’s Secondary School located in the same vicinity where  Mrs Ayesha, the school principal and administrator greeted them and showed them   around  all the classes including the  computer and chemistry laboratories. HOPE is also an education oriented NGO in Pakistan and runs  several  secondary schools not just  in Karachi but also in Thatta and Muzaffargarh, Southern Punjab. Hope an education oriented  NGO in Pakistan, also runs as many as 200 home schools spread  over many areas of Karachi’s slums, mostly on the very outskirts of the city where schools  virtually don’t  exist.  HOPE’s schools do not just exist in Karachi or Sindh but a network of such schools are spread right  into the very north of Pakistan - into Azad Jammu & Kashmir.

 

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. 

At the same time very much In keeping with HOPE’s  traditions , Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, Chairperson of HOPE and child specialist in Karachi,  strives harder with the passing of time to provide as much quality health assistance to the general masses as possible.