Country Coordinator:  Sameena Nazir:  sameena@teacherswithoutborders.org
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Partners
    PODA:   women....earthquake
    Iqbal....:  islam and modern teacher training
Earthquake Relief

Teachers Without Borders is proud to work with PODA to explore ways of expanding educational opportunities for a village that has already gone to extraordinary measures to assess needs arrived at by an extensive resource mapping process.  Mirza M. Nazir, a highly-respected elder, has taken on the job of creating literacy classes for girls from local villages, introduced paper-mache crafts, and made plans to utilize an abandoned building from an Iqra (government school project)which was shut down.  
    *  Life Skill Education and Art Program  PDF...
    * Water Supply System
    * Growing Rights of Women
    * Social Mobilization and Community Development
    * Promoting Human Rights
    * Playground for Girls in Village Khangah
    * Iqra School

Iqbal International Institute for Research, Education, and Dialogue

On August 1st, 2005, President Musharraf signed a document approving the historic Iqbal International Institute for Research, Education, and Dialogue, an ambitious undertaking designed to promote the concept of "enlightened moderation" through teacher training, public dialogue, and outreach to every village in Pakistan.  The Institute shall be led by Dr. Riffat Hassan, a world-famous feminist the ologian and Islamic scholar.  

Teachers Without Borders conceived, and shall supervise, the Education Division, which shall work with selected partners to connect and integrate contemporary teacher training with the vitality of Islam in the spirit of Allama Iqbal.  With this central focus in mind, we shall direct our attention to four strategies and components: (1)  enhancing a mentor teacher corps (2) aggregating, creating, and developing curriculum and teaching materials based upon the research, dialogue, and outreach divisions (3) creating learning opportunities at the village level  (4) consulting with both the Ministry of Education and Higher Education on plans for curriculum review and revision on a national scale.

The Education program is a scalable enterprise, focusing first on mentor training in specific regions, then relying on their collective expertise to build a data-base of expertise and experience, the intention of which is to create curriculum materials and to provide fertile ground for support as we move into the consultative phase fornational curriculum review and reform.

Background: Teachers Without Borders had the honor and pleasure to participate in aU.S. State Department grant won by the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Louisville.  The University of Louisville was the only university in the nation ot receive the grant under a program that was developed after the September 11th, 2001 attacks.  The State Department was so impressed by the proposal submitted by the College of Arts and Sciences that it changed its original plan (which involved several small grants to more schools) and allocated all of the funding to U of L.  In the first part of Phase I, South Asian Muslim  religious scholars, teachers, and preachers visited the United Statesand participated in extensive tours of religious and educational settings.  The Iqbal International Institute for Research, Education, and Dialogue grew out of these meetings, which included President Pervez Musharraf.

» Read an article about TWB and Pakistan here.
» Read an article in the Pakistani Observer.
» Click here for a speech by Dr. Fred Mednick, President & Founder of Teachers Without Borders.

Centre for Health and Population Studies

Centre for Health and Population Studies:  Focusing on outreach to the community through training
Teachers Without Borders is working with the Centre for Health and Population Studies in Lahore, Pakistan.  We began by shipping books tosupport a library on health and population-related issues.  In the light of the demand and the need for post graduate public health studyin Pakistan, the Centre for Health & Population Studies (CHPS) was established in January 1999 as a private institute solely dedicated tothis purpose. It is the first of its kind in the private sector in Pakistan.  The aim of the CHPS is to fulfill an important need forthe supply of specialized human resources in the areas of public health & health management.

    * Provide human resources in the area of public health & health management.
    * Broaden the existing scope of graduate studies in this field
    * Conduct research on public health issues in Pakistan

For more information and to contact the Centre for Health and Population Studies directly, please contact: