Chak 96 R/B School
The school sits in the middle of the village and serves families living in very difficult circumstances. Close to 150 pupils study there.
Machike Boarding School
A home for the children who need one most: their own bed, three meals a day, medical care and a formal education.
The Machike Boarding School is located in Machike, a village in the Sheikhupura District. It was founded to give a home to the children who need one most. In this home — which we call a boarding school — the children receive proper meals, medical care, a formal education, and everything else they need.
Travelling through villages, cities and countless communities, our teams met families with school-age children living under bridges, in makeshift shelters, in one-room houses with large families, and with separated parents and guardians struggling with drug addiction. This boarding school was founded to reach children living in such conditions. Here every child has their own bed, three meals a day, medical care, a formal education, and their other essential needs met. Over the years hundreds of children have benefited from this facility, and many have graduated and now work as professionals in a variety of fields.
The children come from all over Pakistan, and their parents are deeply grateful that they can study and grow up in a comfortable, clean and healthy environment. We continue to serve hundreds of children at this school year after year. Your support as a sponsor is the key to keeping these doors open for more children living in poverty in the years ahead.
Pictures from the school
Machike Boarding School
Testimonials
Voices from Pakistan
I come from a large family and my parents could not afford to send me and my four siblings to school. We lived not far from the school in Farooqabad, and after my parents learned that children could receive scholarships from generous people in Iceland to study there,...
Nazish
Nurse — Farooqabad School
After I finished elementary school in my village, the dream of continuing my education seemed unrealistic. I am one of seven siblings, and my parents' priority was meeting the daily needs of the household, not paying for our education. However bleak the outlook, I kept hoping that something...
Najma
Treasurer and master's student — Machike Boarding School
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