Agahi Community Schools

Agahi Community Schools
Location
Mari Khan Khel, Buffa Mera, Safaida,
Laberkot (2 schools), Mazullah, Maidan
Information
Type Primary, child-centred
School district Maneshra
Oversight Parent committee
Gender 50:50
Average class size 30
Teachers All community-based women
Website http://agahischools.org

The Agahi Community Schools are a series of schools established by the Agahi group. Since 1997 Agahi has established seven community schools in villages in Mansehra District of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. In each village, a Community Based Organization (CBO) known locally as a Tanzeem, made up of parents, is responsible for the management of the school. A sub-committee of Tanzeem members, handles operational issues, motivates parents to enrol their children in the school and helps identify village-based teachers.

Agahi has introduced activity-based education and a modern curriculum in the schools. The Agahi Teacher Training Centre in Mansehra town trains teachers during holidays and provides back-up ‘mentoring’ in the classrooms by sending mentors to the schools to provide support and oversight. All teachers are local women and classes are normally around 50% girls.

Schools

The villages in which Agahi schools are located are

Mazullah and Maidan schools are near the 2005 Kashmir earthquake ‘red zone’, devastated by the earthquake on 8 October 2005,[1] and were built and continue to be supported by Developments in Literacy (DIL)[2] and Agahi.

References

  1. "Pakistan 2005 Earthquake Preliminary Damage and Needs Assessment" Archived October 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. adb.org, accessed 27 April 2009
  2. "Mansehra Schools" Archived April 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. dil.org, accessed 27 April 2009

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/17/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.