Took Tara June & 1000.org to two community schools in Lyari. Computer labs and generators are the first orders of business, fingers crossed. 1000.org day 2: Afghan refugee school in Sohrab Goth. Two hundred students, but only forty when we went because the rest were out working.
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Hi OneThousand Supporters
I held a medical camp at the civic hospital in Larkana yesterday! It went so well… Many extremely poor people live here in rural Sindh province, Paksitan, so the need for glasses was huge! We finally have a market and way to make a permanent partnership with the self-prescribing glasses! So happy. All the staff were very excited also… such a great 1st day of the year…
So far we have funded 4 main projects:
An Afghan refugee camp school, 80,000 rupees to build a library and chemistry desk. Tables for teachers and more chairs for students. We have also got a local Plastics Company onboard to provide a playground. 20,000 refugees will benefit from the school and public library and the playground. They are now permanent partners on onethousand.org. and will receive constant funding.
A community run school aimed at girls in Lyari, Karachi. They will benefit from a computer lab and a teacher for one year. Locals are helping to paint the room also. They will receive 100,000 rupees and are permanent partners. 700 students will benefit from this lab.
Bombasa Tuition Center, in the worst area of Karachi for gang violence will now have a library, two battery run generators for power and mats to sleep and sit on, as many women and children use this space as a safe house also. We will have a teacher here also teaching Urdu and English. They are permanent partners with onethousand.org. 2000 women and children use this facility. 80,000 rupees is a starting point of funding.
A girls orphanage in rural Karachi, 106 girls will have a higher education fund, to help them through college and university, if they chose. The girls will also have access now to extra tuition. They are now permanent partners with onethousand.org. 80,000 rupees
We have also supported the Womens Jail in Larkana, Panah House – womens refuge, Civic Hospitals in Karachi and Larkana for elderly men and women.
We leave Pakistan to head back to the Kurdish region in Turkey tomorrow. It has been a successful trip and we look forward to creating more partnerships and signing more Ambassadors throughout 2010.
Thank you all for your support,
Tara June Winch
Founder
Fatima Bhutto
Ambassador for Urdu PakistanSource: http://rebeccasparrow.wordpress.com/
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