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November 21, 2020
Holiday 2020 Newsletter
Dear Friends, The Hoshyar Foundation has been in operation for nearly fourteen years, since early 2007. In that time, we have worked on a shoestring budget to increase girls’ access to post-primary education in underserved communities in Pakistan. We have built, reconstructed, or expanded 14 schools and helped nearly 700 girls graduate from high school.… Read more >>
November 27, 2019
Holiday 2019 Newsletter
Dear Friends of Hoshyar, I’ve just returned from an intense but exhilarating three weeks in Pakistan. Hoshyar currently supports ten schools—one in Punjab, eight in Mansehra district, and one in the tribal area of Torghar—and I was able to visit seven of them. Bad weather, road conditions, and security concerns prevented traveling to the other… Read more >>
November 27, 2018
Holiday 2018 Newsletter
Dear Friends, 2018 was a great year for Hoshyar. Our signal accomplishment was to build a girls’ higher secondary facility in the village of Jabergali, complete with science lab and library. When I visited the construction site in March, I was inspired by all that was happening. Late winter weather notwithstanding, walls were going up,… Read more >>
November 18, 2017
Holiday 2017 Newsletter
Dear Friends of Hoshyar, In 2009, Hoshyar had fewer than 100 girls in middle school—and not a single one in high school. Since then, 379 girls have graduated from Hoshyar-sponsored high schools. Amazingly, 57 have also earned higher secondary degrees (F.A., F.Sc.). And there is more: 8 Commerce qualifications conferred 7 Primary teachers certified 9… Read more >>
November 15, 2016
Holiday 2016 Newsletter
Dear Friends, As we complete our tenth year, I am pleased to report on really great developments with our programs for girls’ education in Pakistan. Yes, political instability continues, as do security problems; so do fraught relations between the nominal allies, the U.S. and Pakistan. But all our schools are operating well. Dozens of students… Read more >>
May 3, 2016
New Grant for Innovative Technologies
Pictured above: Bhunja tenth-graders take their turn outdoors because the school is two classrooms short. Graffiti reads: “The house in which there is no book is worse than a house deserted.” Hoshyar is happy to announce a major grant from the HBL (Habib Bank Limited) Foundation in Karachi. The three-year award will be utilized to… Read more >>
December 14, 2015
Holiday 2015 Newsletter
Dear Friends, Nine years ago, we started the Hoshyar Foundation by adopting a run-down school for village kids in Pakistan. Inspired by the example of others, we decided to work for the empowerment of girls in the part of the world we loved and knew the best. We ask you to join us in… Read more >>
June 15, 2015
Summer Appeal 2015
Dear Friends of Hoshyar, As we enter the summer season, I have some great news to share with you. In the past twelve months, Hoshyar has built two new schools in honor of Malala Yousafzai. We also facilitated the construction of two others by working with the Maria-Helena Foundation of Vancouver, Canada. Every month we… Read more >>
December 17, 2014
Tragedy of the Peshawar Attack
Hoshyar joins the world in grieving for the innocent children who lost their lives, the teachers who tried to protect them, and the families whose pain is unimaginable. We condemn those who value life so little and prey on the weak. This senseless tragedy defeats our understanding. We take heart nonetheless from past efforts to… Read more >>
December 15, 2014
Holiday 2014 Newsletter
Dear Friends of Hoshyar, 2014 has been a remarkable year. Thanks to you, Hoshyar now supports eight middle and secondary schools for girls in rural Pakistan! We have 550 girls in grades six through twelve. Hoshyar built two of these schools in honor of Malala Yousafzai. This year the world saw exactly what kind of… Read more >>
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