Team READ is a group of four students attending the course ''Globalization and Social Entrepreneurship''. This is a powerpoint presentation covering major points of our proposal for a social action project in the field of education in rural areas of Pakistan.

1. Humayun Iftikhar Gondal,
Muhammad Haris Khan,
Sarah Shafiq,
Ilyas Hussain

2.  ‘‘Establishing self-financed need driven
schools in rural settings that cater to primary
education of the children of small farmers,
provide training to the mothers on Healthcare
and self-employment and to lead a social
action campaign to change the behavior of the
villagers toward education and women’s
involvement in the public sphere’’

3.  Poor families associated with agriculture in villages
are usually large. So, poor parents are not able to
spend a lot on education of a single child.
 Government schools have no system of checks and
balances
 Traditional curriculum has failed to respond to the
needs of local communities particularly in down-
trodden areas
 Cram schools focused on spoon-fed knowledge add
no practical value in the life of students

4.  Providing low-cost quality education to a child is the
best long term investment we can make to improve
living standards of an entire generation
 Workable solution is to establish low-cost schools
based on model of social entrepreneurship

5.  We want to take the challenge of setting our social venture
apart from all other projects in the field of education and set
a new precedence
 The school tuition will be based on measurable and visible
changes in the local communities
---imparting skills responsive to local labor market in our
students so that they can earn meager amounts and become
helping hands of their parents while being at school
---training girl students in home-economics skills so as to
enable them become a contributing member of their
families.

6.  Things will be hands-on and practical in our school
 Testing system will be devised to monitor educational
attainment by means of standardized measurements
 Exhaustive research work to determine the change in
socioeconomic conditions and to expand our projects in
other localities

7.  We need assistance and funding for our school’s
initiation
 Gradually, the school will be self-financed by its own
teachers and students
 We will create jobs, self-employment and labor
opportunities out of our school that will help us further
in financing
 Training projects for house-wives teaching them to start
small in-house ventures so as to make them
economically independent and let them use their money
for education of their daughters

8.  Training students of higher grades to assist teachers in
instructing lower grade pupils
 All the clerical and managerial work in the school will
be done with the assistance and collaboration of the
student community
 As many on-campus jobs will be launched as possible

9. In 5 years period, we expect
 the school to be self-sufficient and independent and
 to have close collaborations with the local
communities.
 every child in the community to attend the school at
least upto grade 5.
 to have imparted professional trainings to hundreds of
boys and girls who would be now potentially earning
more.
 to have led many systematic awareness campaigns in
the area.

10.  Because we believe ‘‘ideas are bulletproof’’