May 3, 2016
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 >>
March 4, 2014
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 >>
October 10, 2012
Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year old activist for girls’ education in Swat, Pakistan, was shot in the head by the Taliban on October 9 in an assassination attempt. They halted and boarded her bus, demanded that she be identified, and then opened fire, seriously wounding her and two of her fellow students. By a miracle, she… Read more >>
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