OLPC Pakistan

2007 status: green
green

This is the wiki for the OLPC Pakistan. The mission of this Not for Profit Organization is to create an environment for OLPC, take necessary steps to ensure every child in Pakistan get the laptops and develop the Local Activities for OLPC laptops that could revolutionize how we educate the children. Our goal is to provide every children of Pakistan with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.

It is unfortunate that in Dec 2006, the Education Minister (a retired general) didn't show any interest to OLPC mission to Pakistan. After popular elections of Feb 2008, a new government is in place and a professor is heading the Federal Ministry of Education. OLPC Regional Office in Islamabad was invited by the Ministry of Education to make presentation to a group of senior educational mangers on OLPC deployment in the country. A second presentation was done by Dr. Habib Khan to another group of school principals this week (April 24, 2008). These are all positive signs of a breakthrough any time.

                              Teachers Preparation Workshop at Mehfooz Shahid Model School

1. We launched a teacher preparation workshop (TPW) in collaboration with National Rural Support Program (NRSP) in one their schools located in a Islamabad valley. There are 9 teachers that are permanent faculty of the School along with volunteer and visiting faculty who are mostly community members interested in helping the school. For this TPW 10 teachers registered and 19 showed up to participate – this included mothers of pupils in the school and volunteer teachers.

2. Workshop was designed specifically for this purpose by Habib Khan. It emphasized on constructionist approach of learning by using OLPC. One training day consisted of 3 hrs per day as the female teachers. The attendance and the excitement of the teachers was high we had more participants from the school and community.

3. This workshop will conclude on April 24, 2007