WEP Education

Education

Women Empowerment Pakistan (WEP) champions education as a fundamental right, focusing on enhancing access and quality for girls, marginalized children, and adults in Pakistan. Aligned with the UNCRC, WEP’s Education Program includes literacy initiatives, non-formal education, and teacher training, with a research-based Urdu curriculum tailored for underprivileged communities. The program promotes gender equality, critical skills development, and sociol economic progress through community engagement and strategic partnerships.

Achievements

 Educational Rights Advocacy: Actively promoted education as a human right, addressing access barriers, especially for girls.
 In-Home Literacy Centers: Established 20 literacy resource centers in Sultanabad and Hijrat Colony (Karachi) with Karachi Youth Initiative, and 6 centers in Peshawar suburbs (Mashokhel, Bazikhel, Ahmedkhel) for women, girls, and children.
 Parha Likha Sultanabad Project: Provided education to 500 out-of-school girls and women via home-based literacy centers, fostering female empowerment.
 Teacher Training: Trained 750 female teachers from 25 missionary schools in English/Urdu phonics, mathematics, and lesson planning; 70 teachers from Shifa Tamire Millat Schools in Early Childhood Education; 40 teachers from Tamir e Millat Foundation in Urdu Phonics; and over 200 teachers in multi-grade teaching with Sanjog in Baluchistan.
 Curriculum Development: Created a research-based non-formal Urdu literacy syllabus focusing on reading, writing, and foundational mathematics.
 Sponsor a Child Program: Profiled 100 out-of school/dropout children for readmission in New Karachi with The Royal Scholar High School.
 ICTRCs Program: Established Information & Communication Technology Resource Centers (ICTRCs) in rural community schools, functioning as computer labs and Community Technology Learning Centres (CTLCs), providing ICT training to students, educators, and communities to bridge the technology divide and promote gender equality.

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