IEI Young Filmmakers: Children explore the art of expression through filmmaking By - Team / Volunteer Story In the summer of 2021, IEI Pakistan organised a summer camp for children in the Khyber village of Gojal, Hunza. The camp was focused on creating joyful learning experiences for children using storytelling, but the kids were given the...
IEI Spring Fundraiser: Coming together for quality education in Pakistan By - Team / Team Story Karachi; On June 9, 2022, IEI Pakistan hosted its first ever fundraiser event in Karachi in collaboration with District 19. Our friends, supporters, and the artist community in Karachi gathered on Thursday night to celebrate IEI Pakistan’s work at the...
Learning without Internet: A student’s experience By - Aliza Ahsan / Community Student Story “I just want to say that is it our fault that we are born in places where there is no internet access?”Hello everyone, I am Aliza from a mountain village in Hunza called Misgar. My parents are farmers and shepherds but...
Cyclical inaccessibility: COVID-19’s impact on girls’ education By - Asiya Jawad / Team Story Girls’ education has been neglected all around the world, and especially in developing countries by governments, schools, and households. About 132 million girls were out of school before the coronavirus outbreak. Due to COVID-19 around 1.5 billion students all around the world have...
Staying in touch with our students: Connectivity & Creativity during COVID-19 By - Asiya Jawad / Team Story Even though we are hundreds of miles away from our students living in Misgar and Shimshal, they have created a strong, sacred space in our hearts which motivates us to educate them through innovative means. The pandemic...
What’s happening in our Program? – Setting up a Computer Lab (2/3) By - xyz / Team Story The first phase of the ongoing development program at the Government Middle School Shimshal started last year November when our team worked on a detailed assessment of the school. The phase covered 6 focus areas for school assessment:Teaching...
IEIxShimshal – What’s happening in our Program? (1/3) By - xyz / Team Story We arrived in Shimshal at the start of April. The valley lay covered in the greys of winter. While blossom had started in Hunza, Shimshal was still surviving through the last of winter.The first month was a challenge as always –...
Storytellers in the Mountains By - Bisma Yusufzai (Augus 2018) / Volunteer Story Growing up I spent a lot of time at the library, reading everything I could get my hands on and imagining myself on fantastic adventures, some of which I still remember.Now, I earn my living managing the content side of a digital...
Fostering Communication & Creativity through Storytelling By - Asiya Jawad & Marvi Soomro / Team Story After the coronavirus outbreak, IEI Pakistan began finding new techniques to interact with its students to curb the forthcoming educational loss. While we were figuring out different ways of communicating with our students, (i.e radio, telephone, SMS) we were...
Earth Day – Our Environmental Resolve By - Marvi Soomro / Founder Story A 6 ton sperm whale washed up the shores of southern spain with 64 pounds of plastic in its stomach. Only last month the last male northern white Rhino, Sudan, died bringing with it the witnessing of the extinction of a specie....
