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.
Peshawar School
Standing in the middle of the community it serves, the school removes the travel costs and safety worries that once kept children out of education.
The Peshawar School is located in a community some distance from the city. The children's parents and guardians work as street sweepers, cleaners, domestic helpers and day labourers on very low monthly incomes.
Before the school was founded the children had to travel into the city to attend school, which added the financial burden of transport on top of high school fees. The journeys back and forth also created safety problems, and because of these burdens many children had to drop out at a young age.
The Peshawar School sits in the middle of this community and so resolves the parents' main concerns, allowing them to let their children receive a formal education. Most of these children could never have afforded schooling, and because of this school a great many have now graduated and work as teachers, nurses, bookkeepers and in other professions. All of this is thanks to the generosity of sponsors in Iceland.
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Peshawar 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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