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  To donate through PayPal, select the funding campaign to which you would like to contribute:

• Incoming wire transfers (domestic or international) may be made by contacting Hoshyar's Chief Financial Officer, Kathryn Hansen, khansen@hoshyar.org to ascertain bank details.

• Personal checks are also a cost-effective way to contribute to our work. Checks can be made payable to:

  Hoshyar Foundation
  P.O. Box #28502
  Austin, TX 78755

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Find out about Hoshyar's individual funding campaigns below:

General Fund

Zaida Petievich Fund

Malala Schools Fund

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  General Fund

  Hoshyar supports the annual operations of approximately ten girls’ schools through its General Fund. Hoshyar’s grants cover teachers’ salaries, transportation, books, school uniforms, science laboratories, furniture, and libraries. We also support teacher training programs and medical treatment for families.

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  Zaida Petievich Scholarship Fund for Future Teachers

  To honor Zaida Carlson Petievich, the Hoshyar Foundation has established a scholarship fund for future teachers. Its goal is to help prepare top graduates of our sponsored schools to become teachers. Those who excel in the college-prep course (F.A.) will be sponsored for teacher training courses at the university level. Eventually they will return to teach in local villages and train the next generation of girls.

  Zaida Petievich was a lifelong supporter of female education. Trained as a social worker, she received several awards for community service. She died in August 2012 at the age of 88.

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  Malala Schools Fund

  Malala Yousafzai came to the attention of the world in 2009 when she spoke out to the media against the attacks on girls’ schools in the Swat Valley. She was featured in the video made about the Hoshyar Foundation in 2011. On October 9, 2012, at the age of fifteen, she was shot in the head by the Taliban in an assassination attempt. Since then she has become an inspiration for girls the world over. In October 2014, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism on behalf of girls’ education and children’s rights.

  After the attack, Hoshyar set up a new fund to build schools to honor Malala. “Each time extremists try to foil girls’ aspirations for education, we will recommit to opening more schools,” Carla Petievich stated. With these donations, in 2014 Hoshyar and its partners in Pakistan built and inaugurated two new schools in her honor, one in remote Chhota Bala and the other in Khairabad. The Malala Schools Fund continues to recognize Malala's commitment to global education.