Education

The Foundations have from their inception identified the link between health and education and developing the latter is currently a principal Foundation focus. This has included the refurbishment, reopening and running of two schools (5 to 11 year olds – 1 boys and 1 girls) on the outskirts of Peshawar on the border with FATA (where there is no government school) for brick kiln workers (poorest of the poor and very low life expectancy) children. The Foundation is opened the first phase (for girls) of a fee-paying educational complex nearby (Mian Gul School) in Shamshatoo in FATA in April 2011 for 12 to 18 year olds plus adult education and training in the same area. In addition we are supporting a local madrassa with the intention of bringing it in as a partner in the education system comprising the above schools.

Projects requiring your financial support

Education Scholarships for Child Labourers in Pakistan

This project will provide hundreds of migrant child labourers in the Brick Kilns around Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, North West Pakistan with £100 to cover the cost of school enrolment —including school supplies, fees, uniforms, shoes and transport—so they can attend school at Abaseen Foundation managed schools.

Schools we support

Mian Gul School, Shamshatoo

The Frontier Region (FR) Peshawar, being part of FATA, had no school facilities till 1947. Its people, therefore, greatly lagged behind their brothers in settled areas . In early 1950's it used to be an uphill task to find some one in FATA area to read a simple letter in Urdu what to talk of English. FR Peshawar, though situated close by on the southern side of Peshawar, was no exception.

Noor Model "Brick Kiln" School

The Abaseen Foundation has been running Noor Model School for the disadvantaged children of brick kiln area about 35 km south of Peshawar since January 2009. This is an area where poverty and child labour is linked with poor health and reduced life expectancy in a perpetual cycle. Approximately 70 % of the children have severe malnutrition. The project is needed to break this cycle; establish alternatives, and enable children of poor families to have options for a different future through education and social change. Education for the girls is particularly important with literacy rates of between 3 to 8% and the fact that girls are particularly important because they tend to influence the health and well being of the wider family because of their role in feeding the family, keeping the house and childcare.

We have previously supported the following schools:

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