Community Memoirs – Women & Hunzai Caps By – Aqsa Seth / Volunteer Story Never in my life words have failed me as perfunctorily as they do when asked about my time in Chipursan teaching in a local school. For I am still always left in an awe everytime the name is mentioned and the […]
Music: A Transcendental Form of Art By – Moaz Ahmed Bhangu / Volunteer Story I feel music is the most transcendental form of Art. I taught the kids 3 lines from the song Fix you. It took 20 minutes. Despite the fact that English is their third language, second being Urdu. (Video in next post)On […]
Developing Emotional Skills: Painting to Music By – Maliha Saleem & Syed Misbah Uddin / Volunteer Story Music & Painting have drawn on each other for inspiration, artists have attempted to translate musical rhythms into structural paintings while musicians have developed visual themes. As a duo, it is a powerful medium to develop in our […]
IEI Creative Reading & Writing Club By – Marvi Soomro / Founder Story John Muir said the power of imagination makes us infinite.We wanted to experience that for ourselves and so we formed groups and gathered around in a beautiful clear field in Misgar and read!We read to flex those mind muscles, to think, fantasize […]
Junk Sculptures Installation By – Feroza Gulzar / Volunteer Story The activity began with collection of junk material from around the valley, the junior & senior students went on an exploration class and collected a variety of material from old sweaters and shoes to a broken seesaw & Iron scraps. The next class, they were […]
Installation Art: Behavior of Light By – Karimie Hunzai & Shaggy Brone / Team Story Seeing a visual perspective of a science concept is very interesting, even as grown ups we find it easier to understand with visuals attached. The Behaviour of Light Installation is meant to give the children that source of inspiration to […]
Willow Tree – IEI Libraries By – Karimai Hunzai & Shaggy Brone / Team Story Willow Tree IEI Libraries are designed and executed by Architect Shagy Brone & Artist Karimie Hunzai, using very limited material and resources, the libraries focus at re-using old junk furniture and material found in the natural environment in these communities. […]
Writing Club: Forming Closely Knit Creative Communities By – Joti Ghani / Volunteer Story Volunteering with IEI allowed me to not only contribute to community development but also learn from the people and culture of Chipursan valley. Through writing exercises and journal-keeping, we explored and worked with the students’ narrative and expression. Each class was […]
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 […]
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 […]