teggy
August 27, 2013, 2:03am
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Re: One realistic thing for Pakistan
Nice, nice. :k:
A health care center with a focus on prevention of diseases, especially catering to women. Great! You have my best wishes. :k:
True, education is so instrumental to lifting an entire family out of poverty and yet so many people do not have access to it at all. Not to mention the educational institutions that are there for the under-privileged in Pak sadly often leave a lot to be desired.
Teggy, perhaps you already do, but you (and others) can also help the needy by donating to The Citizens Foundation or DIL. The latter, Developments in Literacy is an initiative of Pakistani-Americans that manages 175+ schools in Pak, employing over 800 teachers and serving about 17,000 students, 66% of whom are females. (Recently, a DIL student was *one of the two students *selected from all over Pakistan to attend a summer program at Vassar College in New York!). The Citizens Foundation has established over 900 schools in Pak which together have an enrollment of 126,000 students and support about 9000 jobs, including that of 6300 teachers. Some of their students make it to top universities with at least one TCF’s alumna attending Summer Exchange Program at Harvard Business School!
Are you personally invovled with DIL? Where are they more concentrated? Urban or Rural? Thank you so much for the information. InshaAllah we should all do whatever’s possible to help.