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November 21, 2022
Holiday 2022 Newsletter
Dear Friends, As we come to the end of our sixteenth year in operation, the Hoshyar Foundation remains strong. While life in Pakistan remains as difficult as ever for many, we can take satisfaction in reporting that there are 1800 students currently enrolled in schools we established and continue to support. This year the extraordinarily… Read more >>
November 15, 2021
Holiday 2021 Newsletter
Dear Friends, Warm greetings to all of you as we offer an update of where the Hoshyar Foundation finds itself at the end of fifteen years in operation. We are delighted to still be “in business” and making a difference in rural communities in northern and suburban Pakistan. Despite the ongoing disruptions because of the… Read more >>
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 >>
September 16, 2014
Fall 2014 Update
Keeping Our Promises—the Malala Fund We have good news, and reason to be optimistic at Hoshyar, despite what an unhappy year 2014 has been for Pakistan. We have built two new village schools in honor of Malala Yousafzai, the young education activist. For this we can thank your generosity, the dedication and hard work of… Read more >>
March 4, 2014
Executive Director Carla Petievich reports from northern Pakistan
March 3, 2014 Today I was taken to our two newest—and most remote—schools. The Government Girls’ High School in Bararkot is very close to the Kashmir border. The high mountains around it are beautiful, though Mansehra District suffers from tremendous deforestation. As we drove up the Kashmir Highway there were numerous serious landslides precipitated by… Read more >>
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