Aagahi Archives - TCF - USA | The Citizens Foundation https://www.tcfusa.org/tag/aagahi/ Tue, 23 Feb 2016 02:48:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 A Gift of Literacy https://www.tcfusa.org/success-stories/18631-2/ https://www.tcfusa.org/success-stories/18631-2/#respond Sun, 10 Jan 2016 07:51:14 +0000 http://www.tcf.org.pk//?p=18631 “Just a few days ago, as I was about to begin my Aagahi session, one of the women in my class pulled me down in excitement. She had brought a newspaper. I sat with her quiet and motionless with my eyes on her while she tried to read the paper. She labored to break the […]

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]]> https://www.tcfusa.org/success-stories/18631-2/feed/ 0 Yasmeen ki Kahani- Aagahi ka Safar https://www.tcfusa.org/videos/yasmeen-ki-kahani-aagahi-ka-safar-2/ https://www.tcfusa.org/videos/yasmeen-ki-kahani-aagahi-ka-safar-2/#respond Tue, 29 Dec 2015 05:17:24 +0000 http://www.tcf.org.pk//?p=17467 This is the Story of Yasmeen, a TCF Alumni and a mentor for the Aagahi Adult Literacy Program which provides illiterate women from rural areas and urban slums around TCF schools an opportunity to learn how to read and write Urdu and basic mathematics.

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]]> https://www.tcfusa.org/videos/yasmeen-ki-kahani-aagahi-ka-safar-2/feed/ 0 A Fruitful Journey https://www.tcfusa.org/success-stories/a-fruitful-journey/ https://www.tcfusa.org/success-stories/a-fruitful-journey/#respond Tue, 18 Nov 2014 11:17:52 +0000 http://www.tcf.org.pk//?p=15875 Parveen, mother of five children and wife of a labourer, belongs to a village in District Mianwali. Education of females was looked down upon in her village, so she was not allowed by her family to attend school. “Sometimes, my children would ask me for help with their school work and I being illiterate myself, […]

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]]> https://www.tcfusa.org/success-stories/a-fruitful-journey/feed/ 0 How Education Changed my World https://www.tcfusa.org/success-stories/how-education-changed-my-world/ https://www.tcfusa.org/success-stories/how-education-changed-my-world/#respond Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:10:55 +0000 http://www.tcf.org.pk//?p=15887 From a very young age, Kulsoom was anxious to learn how to read and write. Her parents used to work in the fields and she would often accompany them to give them a hand. For a short time she did get the opportunity to take a few classes at school but when her father got […]

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]]> https://www.tcfusa.org/success-stories/how-education-changed-my-world/feed/ 0 The Road to Awareness https://www.tcfusa.org/success-stories/the-road-to-awareness/ https://www.tcfusa.org/success-stories/the-road-to-awareness/#respond Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:03:03 +0000 http://www.tcf.org.pk//?p=15941 “When I was a child I used to feel inferior to girls who used to go to school in my neighborhood… I knew that education could not become my preference at that point in life” shares Musarrat. Thus, on finding out about the Aagahi Programme, she enrolled quickly, finding a way to manage her house […]

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