Location: Rural Pakistan
The project aim was to increase the status of women and future generations in rural areas where lack of basic educational opportunities contributes to economic poverty, poor health, and unsustainable population growth. Reducing the effects of these 3 inhibitors were to be achieved by an integrated, educative approach, and to teach participating women how to read and the opportunities that come with literacy, the importance of adhering to sanitary practices in the use of water and waste disposal, as well as effective and inexpensive methods of birth control.
With a literacy rate of only 23%, Pakistani women are far below the dismal 36% literacy rate that represents the entire adult population of Pakistan. Geographic, cultural, and financial factors all contribute to the inaccessibility of educational resources for women living in rural areas.
The project area was a typical rural village as such rural environments are home to 70% of the country’s population—47% of the country’s agricultural workforce.
It was $50,000 CAD worth and completed in 2 years.
The project aim was to increase the status of women and future generations in rural areas where lack of basic educational opportunities contributes to economic poverty, poor health, and unsustainable population growth. Reducing the effects of these 3 inhibitors were to be achieved by an integrated, educative approach, and to teach participating women how to read and the opportunities that come with literacy, the importance of adhering to sanitary practices in the use of water and waste disposal, as well as effective and inexpensive methods of birth control.
With a literacy rate of only 23%, Pakistani women are far below the dismal 36% literacy rate that represents the entire adult population of Pakistan. Geographic, cultural, and financial factors all contribute to the inaccessibility of educational resources for women living in rural areas.
The project area was a typical rural village as such rural environments are home to 70% of the country’s population—47% of the country’s agricultural workforce.
It was $50,000 CAD worth and completed in 2 years.