Dreams from Bagnan Last November, Seema Shalini Lugun and Satya Siva Nagaswetha, in conjunction with dreamfly, led a 20-day entrepreneurship workshop for students at Bagnan High School in India. Over 50 students participated in the program, where they had the opportunity to
Located in a small town of Howrah district, West Bengal, Bagnan High School has close to three thousand students. The population in the area is primarily a mix of Hindu and Muslim communities and there is a conspicuous communal divide
WE INVITE YOU TO EXPLORE THE STORIES OF FIVE BEAUTIFUL, AMBITIOUS CHILDREN FROM THE STREETS OF KARACHI. SIMPLY PAGE THROUGH THE BOOK WITH YOUR MOUSE BY DRAGGING THE CORNERS TO TURN EACH PAGE. Daredreaming on the Streets of Pakistan is
We are sad to report that earlier this month our school in Akri, Pakistan was flooded and will have to close for a few months. Heavy rains caused a breach in a nearby canal causing the entire village of Akri
By: Fiza It’s been a year since i officially joined dreamfly and i can say looking back at the year i cannot be happier with the decision. It all started with my journey in TCF, and the dreamfly school in
One of the coolest places we visited in Rwanda was a Village named Cyingwa in Rusizi District, near the Rwanda- Congo border. We flew to Kamembe Airport in Rusizi District from Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. The area was mostly mountainous –
Varun and I travelled to Rwanda earlier this month to explore opportunities for our next thedreamfly project. (Thank you, Varun, for joining me in this special journey – it meant the world to me…). With dreamfly’s mission being bringing together
For some time now, Dreamfly has been in discussions to start a new project in an entirely different area of the world than the prior projects we have worked on (in Pakistan and Afghanistan). Collaborating with Mary Neipold (a professor
Last summer we worked with donors in the Seattle area to collect books for the students at our Akri, Pakistan campus. Over 80 books were collected each containing a handwritten note from the donor explaining what the book meant to
By: Fiza Owing to us being bogged down with the fund-raising events in the last few months of 2009, with the wrapping up of the year and the planning for the new year, this blog post is admittedly late in
