An update on the “gift of summer reading” bookdrive
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 them and why they wanted to share it with our students. The library is one [...]
Deciding India’s Future
The Occupy Wall Street movement taking place globally is a clear expression of the frustration that you people are facing globally: too few jobs, too many degrees and a lack of direction. As India’s youth continue to grow, we need to take some lessons from the movement and plan accordingly. Over sixty percent of the [...]
Update on our school in Akri, Pakistan
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 to be flooded. Our campus now has over four feet of water in it, with [...]
The Power of Coffee: A Journey to a Coffee Washing Station in Rwanda
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 – which made for beautiful scenery. We went to Cyingwa to visit a Coffee Washing Station, [...]
Beautiful Rwanda – a living, breathing miracle
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 communities in conflict around common causes, we knew we had to go to Rwanda, a [...]
Exploring a dreamfly Opportunity in Rwanda
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 at Wake Forest University, and founder of the Nyanya Project), we are looking into building [...]
Great Results from our “Gift of Summer Reading” Program!
From April 22 – May 22, the Seattle dreamfly team conducted the first Gift of Summer Reading program, a book drive which let families in the US donate books to our students at the TCF-dreamfly campus in Akri, Pakistan. Along with giving their favorite books, each donor included a note inside their book explaining why [...]
Challenges–and Hope–for the State of Education in Pakistan
A recently released report, by the Pakistani Education Task Force — a group of concerned government officials and NGO workers — underscores the severe shortcomings Pakistan has in providing quality education for its citizens. It starkly calls out their country for not being in a position to meet the UN’s Millennium Development Goals of universal [...]
Addicted in Afghanistan
By: Fiza I saw the London premiere of the film “Addicted in Afghanistan” last week and wrote a review and my thoughts on it for another site, which I am sharing below. It was absolutely the saddest documentary I have seen in a long time and reminds us of our task in Afghanistan and our [...]
First Fund-raiser for Afghanistan Project
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 its release. But now that we have recuperated from 2009 fatigue, are set for the [...]