IREAD’s Work in Pakistan

IREAD’s work in Pakistan is currently focused on delivering early learning to children through a model that utilizes existing community spaces in rural and remote villages in the Chitral region of Northern Pakistan.

IREAD is funding a multi-year project through Aga Khan University’s Institute for Educational Development (AKU-IED) that delivers ECD from existing community spaces. AKU-IED trains village women to teach early childhood education, and fits and furnishes community spaces for classes. These community ECD spaces are in villages where demographics don’t support building an ECD centre. 

The initiative launched in January 2022. As of April 2022, 23 local women were trained to teach ECD, and over 400 children were attending ECD at the 23 community sites that had opened.