#IEIPakistan - a non profit volunteer organisation working to promote education & arts for sustainable development, peace and appreciation for diversity
Launching the Saheli Leaders Fellowship. A unique opportunity for young females looking to develop leadership skills and positively impact the lives of young girls in a remote mountain village. Learn more https://t.co/3gOIFQ3HGn (1)
Our Tech Sahelis have started their journey of translating skills to income and we have partnered with @CaterpillHERs to give them access to the best freelance training out there!
⭐ Exciting News ⭐
CaterpillHERs is thrilled to announce our partnership with @IEIPakistan for the Tech Sahelis Freelance Accelerator!
Empowering women in tech and freelancing is our mission, and we can't wait to help these incredible women achieve their dreams.
#TechSahelis
Learning in the garden with nature and mothers! It has taken us 2 years to get the school, community and teacher onboard with our ECD model and now looking at these updates warms our hearts. Experiential learning and social interaction is what early learning is about!
Thrilled to share this - a 3 part guidebook & female characters we have developed for Saheli Circle with the aim of making our safe space program scalable in Pakistan. The Mentor Guidebook brings together our meticulously designed Life Skills curriculum, the M&E toolkit gives (1)
My latest on the Labor x Tech beat for @restofworld is about a brutal heatwave that swept across Bangladesh last month, and was compounded by 8-10 hour power cuts — making work "living hell" for tech workers trapped inside offices with little ventilation.
https://t.co/8uMDRIubxg
More than half of the world’s #ocean has changed colors in the past 20 years, a phenomenon that is likely driven by #climatechange, says a @Nature study by scientists from @MIT's and @NOCnews on @climate https://t.co/tjRqYlXsSF
Our research with communities in Gilgit-Hunza highlighted financial limitations as one of the key factors that hinders girl child's access to opp. Tech Sahelis is our response to this finding. A curated 3.5 month journey takes girls from the basics of using a computer to (2/3)
In May, with support from @MalalaFund we launched IEI Tech Sahelis - a safe, equipped, digital skills lab for girls and women. Located in Hunza it is a first of it's kind venture to empower girls & women with digital skills, enabling them to be financially self-reliant. (1/3)
I am teaching a class on how to write about climate issues this Sunday. While putting together the reading list for the students I became alarmed at what was happening just this past month and wrote about here: https://t.co/7JsjbzaH6w
Empowering teachers to lead climate education activities with primary to highschool learners. Loved this rainwater harvesting solution explored by young students, led by one of our climate educator, as a solution to water access challenges at their school.
This April we completed the second round of our Climate Educator Training as part of the @worldwideTI. We trained 7 teachers to deliver climate education activities and through them empowered 489 students. More on this blog 🔽 https://t.co/dyYo782hDt
Thread 🧵1) With monsoon season fast approaching, #Pakistan has already seen heavy rains and strong winds resulting in dozens of fatalities. This year, though, the rain is falling on a country still reeling. https://t.co/HMAu88YpTM w @FaseehMangi
🏗️🔧 Why should girls play with building blocks and construction toys? How parents engage in early learning activities with girls may contribute to women's under-representation in #STEM studies and careers. Find out more in this blog post 👉 https://t.co/53LllrIHl8
This week we were joined by H.E the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland @PLinPakistan for the inauguration of our Early Years School in Chipursan Valley, GB. The whole community came out to celebrate the realization of a dream we had dreamed together in 2019.
"To move away from #plastic production and consumption requires a global mindset shift in how we view #planet earth and its resources. We have to bring about a transformation in #education so that we may equip the young of today with the skills for empathic problem solving that
The second round of our School Garden project is underway at a public school in our partner community. Parents, teachers and students gathered to prep the land and sow the seeds. This is part of our experiential learning initiatives to promote environmental education.
@TheGlobalGoals We just launched Tech Sahelis - a digital skills program for girls in remote mountain valleys and so this week we are working on SDGs 4,5 and 8!