English Medium Schools in Balochistan where students have access to Solar Energy, E-Learning E_Health and E-Skilling www.taaleem.pk

1. Dr. Zafar Qadir
Director General
Akhtar Hameed Khan NCRD /
Chairman, Taaleem Foundation

8. Balochistan
KILLA SAIFULLAH
LORALAI
SUI
ZHOB
MASTUNG
MUSLIM BAGH
PISHIN
KOHLU
TF
GRAMMAR
SCHOOL
SYSTEM

9. Brief Facts
• Smart NGO born in 1989 and registered in 1993
• Established 8 schools in tribal districts of Balochistan, having
over 4000 students and 250 graduate lady teachers
• Providing quality schooling, modern curriculum, Quran
lessons, co-education and all-female faculty
• Encouraging female participation, participatory development,
public-private partnership and self-sustenance
• Establishing a vocational training center for women in Sui
(Dera Bugti) to promote economic empowerment
• Pilot testing e-Education and e-Health at Sui (Dera Bugti)

10. Recognition
• Recognized as the Social Entrepreneurship Project of the
year by a US based think-tank 'PUSH Institute' at the
University of Minneapolis in June 2005,
• Taaleem Foundation was selected as one of the two
success stories in Asia (the other being ‘Grameen Mobile’
of Bangladesh) and invited to share experience for
assessing the possibility of replicating this conceptual
model in Africa to combat poverty and crime.
• 1000 plus students in professional careers
• Single largest social change agent in rural Balochistan

11. Situational Analysis
• Quality and competency level of Teachers?
• Expensive and scattered internet access
• Low electrification and power shortage
• Relevance and efficacy of educational content
• Linguistic constraints and gender disparity
• ICT can narrow digital divide and bridge development gap
• Huge potential of engineered social change if ICT deployed
for triggering rural development
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through reliable
partners delivers well with socio-economic dividends

12. Diagnostics
• Lack of clarity on educational goal posts
• Planning and development - gender insensitive
• Curriculum and teaching philosophy out of step
• Performance of public sector HRD institutions
• IMR, MMR and epidemics still a big challenge
• Reluctance of teachers, doctors and other
professionals to work in remote areas
• Madrassas devoid of modern knowledge

13. Sustainable Solution
• Optimizing the use of existing infrastructure with little value
addition through technology inputs
• Enabling technologies available to network social sector
institutions of education, health and skills
• Modern educational content available through Intel and
Microsoft with supporting A.V. aids
• Health related e-data transfer not an issue any more
• Recognizing ICT as an agent of social change

14. Technology Input
• Establishing Telecentres to act as a public place with access
to computers, Internet, and other digital technologies at
public sector HR institutions
• Focus on e-Education, e-Health and e-Skill for students,
teachers, parents and the community
• Provision for adding e-Commerce, e-Agriculture, e-Jobs, e-
Languages and e-Kiosks etc.
• Replication for up-scaling in all schools and madrassas
• Thereby engineering social change through qualitative inputs

19. Pilot Testing at Sui
• Successful pilot testing at TF School in Sui - Dera Bugti
• e-Learning based educational content delivered from
Karachi studio: using high speed broadband; telecasting live
and recorded content with interactive facility
• During afternoons - the center can provide e-Health services
by doctors at home or abroad, with live medical data
transfer facility over broadband
• May add e-Skills facility over weekends, using City & Guild –
UK training content – to make our HR exportable commodity

20. Tangible Impact
• Break-even within one year; savings thereon
• Burden of recurring cost shared by community
• Technically sound vendors industry to flourish
• Job creation in private sector encouraged
• Promotes sustainable livelihood and growth
• Mainstreaming madrassas in use of modern technologies
• Economically viable, and politically sellable
• Win-win-win for government, community and CSR partner

21. Long Term Gains
• Gender mainstreaming in development
• Standardizing knowledge base across the country
• Producing skilled / exportable human resource
• Harnessing young entrepreneurs with basic inputs
• Creating economic opportunities in all areas
• Promoting sustainable livelihood and growth
• Strengthening socio-cultural integration of society
• Thereby inculcating value loaded national pride

22. Details at: www.taaleem.pk