Continuing Malala's Dream - Educating Pakistan

NCOP works in close collaboration with its community members and uses highly developed techniques of social mobilization to involve communities in panning, designing, launching and implementing an intervention. NCOP has been actively working in the fields of healthcare, education, income generation through interest free loan, finance, vocational training programs, nutrition and disaster management.

Most Pakistani children who start school drop out by the age of nine; just 3% of those starting public school graduate from 12th grade, the final year. Girls from poor families are least likely to attend; Pakistan’s gap between girls’ and boys’ enrolment is, after Afghanistan’s, the widest in South Asia. Those in school learn little. Only about half of Pakistanis who complete five years of primary school are literate. In rural Pakistan just over two-fifths of third-grade students, typically aged 8 or 9, have enough grasp of arithmetic to subtract 25 from 54. Unsurprisingly, many parents have turned away from the system. There are roughly 68,000 private schools in Pakistan (about one-third of all schools), up from 49,000 in 2007. Private money currently pays for more of Pakistan’s education than the government does.

Increasing access to education opportunities for out-of-school children is a key priority for NUR Community Outreach Program. Our education programs provide education to children displaced who cannot afford going to school at all, enroll new students in schools and non-formal education programs, repair and construct schools, and train teachers.

Pakistan’s education crisis is a supply-side problem. Enrollment rates are used as the measure for progress because Pakistan has the second-largest population of out-of-school children in the world. But the proportion of 5- to 9-year-olds in school is the same as it was in 2010: 57 percent.

The statistics further reveal that 21% primary schools in the country are being run by a single teacher while 14% have one room.

In light of this scenario, Fatima Memorial Hospital is striving immensely to provide education to underprivileged children to achieve the new targets set for the sustainable development goals through its NUR outreach program.

NUR schools have held numerous activities that aim to not only provide education but also target to encourage numerous activities that will contribute to children’s personal growth. Activities focusing on cleanliness, environmental care, etc. have been held as part of awareness building program amongst children. In addition, students have been distributed books and been provided with nutrition counselling through NURs’ Food distribution program.

NUR Community Outreach Program is primarily working towards improving community health and providing microfinance opportunities and vocational training to under privileged communities.

Please donate generously since the future of these children depends on ours and your support!