Sindh Community Foundation

The work already  being implemented  as pilot  is wheel for education which aims to provide transportation support and quality education to the adolescent girls vulnerable to child marriage and leave the school due to non availability of financial support to continue their  secondary education. Through this grant 400 girls would be able to completed 5 years cycle of the secondary education in rural areas who otherwise would be left out from education .  In this regard a  girls education support endowment fund will be pooled/established with initial seed funding of USD 200,000  to support 400 poor and vulnerable girls for 5 years  transportation support to complete secondary education cycle. These girls would be trained as  transit  guide to promote educational motivation among other their peer& juniors. Along with the transportation support quality education and conducive learning environment will also be provided to the school in which they are enrolled in this regard the 40 girls secondary schools in 3 districts of low secondary enrollment  will be provided with basics facilities of WASH  and teacher training. 200 female teachers, 4 from each school will be trained on teachers as mentor training module for quality education applying gender focused teaching methodologies. 

OUR VISION

A socially and economically empowered society with no discrimination on caste, gender and race with equitable access to social justice and resources

OUR MISSION

Creating social consciousness among the various marginalized and  vulnerable population  women, youth, PWDs, minorities living rural and informal urban settings in Sindh and provision of the equatibale  access to resources and opportunities for socio-economic development ,  improved health and  education status so that they can exercising their rights to combat poverty and all forms of injustices.

OUR OBJECTIVES

• To ensure that all children have access to quality education and no children regardless of gender, colors, races and geographic distribution is left behind and have to drop out or discontinue their education for any reason
• To create and provide equal opportunities to women and girls 

Target for future: 

By the end of project,400 girls from the poor families will have resumed their transited secondary education and completed their secondary grades(400 new enrolled from 2nd year will upgraded from elementary grades), in total 800 girls will have access to secondary education with transportation support. Enrolment and retention will be increased.1200 women and girls out of school will have functional literacy skills .

A latest Economic Survey of Pakistan 2019 report says that literacy rate of Sindh has decreased from 63.0% to 62.2%, triggering a new challenge for the Sindh’s education department. Enrolment ratio of girls in school in Sindh has declined to 39% as compared to 61% of boys. Overall dropout rate in primary classes in Sindh is 23%, according to an investigative report.  Main reason of low enrolment and high dropout is distance of schools from settlements. In an average, distance of schools from the nearest village is 4 to 5 KM and many parents do not send their girls to far off schools as they fear that their girls might face harassed and assaults by disobedient people on the way to and fro .Hence, for girls access is one of the major factors for low enrolment and high drop out.  

A model entitled wheel for education  has been implemented in 7 villages supported 50 girls to continue their secondary school who otherwise have left schools after completing primary and might not have been able to continue lower secondary grades because of distanced secondary schools from their villages. These girls are offering coaching classes for women &girls who never went school

Wheel for education is an innovative intervention which is acceptable at local level and has been piloted.  50 girls who received transportation facility offered coaching classes to 3 each totaling to 150 girls and young women on functional literacy who never went to school or left school in 1st or 2nd grade.   That  has  great multiplication impact of project  to reach more girls and women to increase female literacy and empowerment  in rural areas .

SCF is proposing to scale up the model of wheel for education to reach out 400 girls of 35 villages of 20 girls’ secondary schools to complete their five years cycle of education. These 400 girls will offer their coaching classes to 1200 women and girls on functional literacy.   Girl students  will be trained to act as transition guides for educating and encouraging their peer and juniors for further education thus girls will retain at school to complete the cycle of secondary grades.  Community will share 20% of monthly expenses to the transportation thus the project has sustainability to continue. The endowment fund will also be increasing its size by mobilizing other existing resources  to reach more girls.

SCF is mobilizing financial resource in country and abroad including government, individuals, NGOs and donors to expand its secondary education program -wheel for education . Establishment of  education Transport support  fund is very effective approach has ensured the access of girls belong to poor families  to education in rural areas. SCF has engaged community led enrollment  and awareness campaign trained them on motivational skills for girls education. This remained very effective approach at community level so that parents allowed their girls for further education. The engagement of parents resulted  enrollment of 400 girls in district Tando Muhammad Khan and Matiari and retained 1046 girls in 08 girls secondary schools.  Female Teachers  have been trained on gender focused teaching methods so that more training is required  to play catheters role as mentor . SCF trained 60 female teachers on gender based teaching methods and entrepreneurship and 40 female head teachers on planning, management and leadership. transportation support for poor families is very attractive to allow their girls to get education thus these girls are saved against child marriages. SCF has improved learning  infrastructure and basic facilities in 8 girls secondary schools provided science laboratories in 8 girls high schools.