By Sahar Gul | Project Leader
Dear Friend,
We hope you’ve been safe and well in what has been a difficult time globally.
At our end, in our classrooms and communities across Pakistan, Fellows and students continue to show up with a quiet determination to build, to lead, and to support one another. Across both our Fellow cohorts, Fellows are continuing to deepen their impact, both inside and beyond the classroom. Thank you for enabling this!
Our first-year Fellows are building the foundations of excellence in their classrooms, creating spaces where students feel seen, challenged, and supported every day.
At the same time, our second-year Fellows have begun bringing their Community Partnership Projects (CPPs) to life after months of planning, design, and collaboration. Across 25 projects in Islamabad and Karachi, Fellows are working closely with students, parents, school leaders, and community members to address the challenges their students face.
These projects span areas like literacy, student enrichment, social-emotional learning, health and wellbeing, digital learning, sports, and parent engagement. At their core, they reflect a simple but powerful idea: meaningful change happens when communities come together to build it.
Here is one glimpse of that work:
A library built by students, for students
At two government schools in Karachi's underserved areas, students recently walked into something they had never had before: a library of their own that they themselves built with their teachers' support.
What was once an unused room is now a solar-powered learning space with over 3,500 books, built through the initiative of Fellows and in close partnership with school leadership. Even during power outages, students now have a place to read, learn, and gather.
What stands out most is who built it. Students themselves helped set up the solar electricity system, catalogue books, organize shelves, and take ownership of the space. It is not just a library they use, it is one they created for themselves and their communities.
This is just one of 25 projects, each rooted in the same belief: when students and communities lead, change lasts.
Thank you for being part of this journey.
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