"OUR IMPACT STORIES"
Marvi Soomro
I started ‘Innovate. Educate. Inspire Pakistan’ (IEI Pakistan) in June 2016. I've a degree in Software Engineering & worked in the IT Sector for quite a while before I found my true calling, packed up, gathered volunteers & began work in the remote Misgar Community in Hunza. I'm on the field during our programs and can be found sitting in an open field, reading a book with children, working with them on creative writing or even cooking a hearty meal for our Volunteers!
I truly believe that understanding each other is at the heart of achieving long term peace and Innovative Education & Creative Self Expression are the perfect mediums to get there. With IEI Pakistan We hope to create a platform that helps us bridge our distances and teach us to appreciate the diversity that makes Pakistan what it truly is.
Karimie Hunzai
I am the Co-Founder & Director Art & Spaces, I'm a sculptor Artist by Profession and I've been working in the Hunza Region since 2013 for Inclusion through Art. We are working to create cultural bridges between the like minded youth in the big cities & the people of our remote communities. The idea is to create a sense of inclusion that leads to long term peace building and I am looking at devising plans & nurturing ideas to use art to nurture the young minds & work in collaboration with Volunteer Artists.
I'm on the field and can often be seen working with children on a canvas, creating community environmental art installations or disassembling junk furniture for our All Inclusive Libraries.
The idea is simple - Art & Spaces for Community, Art & Spaces for Public!
Minal Wyne
The idea of the activity was to introduce the children of Kirmin to abstract art in a fun way. It started off with learning color mixing and introducing them to different emotions that each color represents. For example we told them how blue represents calmness, and red represents warmth and when you mix the two you get purple, which in turn carries the properties of both blue and red.
For the Annual Parents Day Program, students of grade II, III, Sir Aziz-ur-Rahman and I did a collaboration of English and Wakhi and represented Pakistan through faces and language of Kirmin. The students dressed up as Sindhi, Balochi, Punjabi and Pathan in pairs. I dressed up as a Gojali.
ZAINAB MAJEED
The idea of the activity was to introduce the children of Kirmin to abstract art in a fun way. It started off with learning color mixing and introducing them to different emotions that each color represents. For example we told them how blue represents calmness, and red represents warmth and when you mix the two you get purple, which in turn carries the properties of both blue and red.
Aliza - Student CBS School, Misgar
Spitfire Spelling Rounds with Aliza, a student of Grade 2 at the Community Based School Misgar during an English Class with Syed Misbah Uddin, volunteer from Lahore.
IEI in Collab with TajarbaGah: Introducing Maker Culture
We at IEI believe innovation in education is imperative to ensure we have a future generation who are the leaders & creators of tomorrow. With regular curriculum advancement still a thing of the future for us at policy level we need to look for other sources and means of bringing that innovation to our classrooms. For this reason during our Fall'17 program in Misgar we collaborated with a Maker Organization called TajarbaGah (https://www.facebook.com/tajarbagah/). An organization with a vision to bring technological and digital literacy to the children in Pakistan.
