Things are getting really good!

I am so glad that the students are enjoying each day at their new schools and are loving that they are learning something new everyday. Over the past month there has been a health and hygiene awareness camp for the ladies at PHC, multiple New Year parties at each school and I am so grateful that bookgroup has offered to donate books to us in Urdu for our students. Another awesome news is that I was looking online for NGOs to help us with health promotion pamphlets in Urdu so that we can teach our students the latest guidelines and in Urdu so that they understand it better and share them with their friends and family members. I contacted USAID and they were amazing and informed me about this program being run by Johns Hopkins University in Pakistan and they have prepared a lot of health education material for our population and I should contact them. I contacted the head of the program and he was very kind and told me that they would be helping us! It is going to be a brilliant  learning opportunity for our students. 

I have been busy with other projects so could not blog earlier but here are some photos from one of our visits to the schools. I'll be blogging about the health awareness camp and the parties later.

These are some of the works of our students. Ha, the ones who know that their handwriting is neat eagerly wait for me to take photos of their notebooks.

This is a sample of hand embroidery by one of our students and soon she will be getting orders for shirts. She is in a bad financial crisis right now and I am so glad she would be able to earn on the basis of her talent now.

And as I wrote about it earlier too, these people do not have enough money to afford bills but whenever a guest is over they will greet you with the best smile and make sure they feed you before you leave. This is another such photo of the awesome food we were served on one of the visits.

Ha this is the cow with fabulous horns outside Safiya's alley:

The is a super small video I recorded while going into Safiya's alley. They women had not covered their faces and the class was going on so I did not want to record them. The alley has open drains and it is slightly cleaner than most alleys but we will soon be launching the hygiene program where we will first inform them about the need for cleanliness, how it eradicates diseases and we will encourage them to keep their houses and alleys clean to encourage a sense of ownership. 

By Zainab Faiza