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Adult Literacy Programe was introduced on 22 jan 2008, with 25 women. The first session was completed on 25 Feb, 2008. These women have completed the first session and are now doing their grade two studies.
Students studying in classroom one at the new garage school on January 8, 2008. The new school building in Neelum Colony is bigger and a lot more children of the locality are enrolled there.
Today, Mr. Rana and Arshad came to give awareness to the parents regarding the value of education. They could get the basic education within 3 months, whereby they will be able to read and write in Urdu .
Shandana Minhas in CHOWK:
A maidservant’s daughter in Shabina Mustafa’s building was refused admission in a sewing class because she could not read or write. In the intro to the project her rejection spawned, Shabina writes, “if I could teach her some basic numeric and literacy skills, she could build on them and learn specialized skills to make something of her life. It was then that I thought, why not teach the children of other servants too. My garage was lying unused and it came in handy for this purpose.”
More here.
In November 1999, Shabina Mustafa’s maid’s daughter was refused admission to the neighbourhood sewing classes. “She cannot read or write”, they said. And thus, the Garage School was formed. This film screened at the 4th KaraFilm Festival in 2004.
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