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4,098 students enrolled, 70 women scholarships, 173 teachers supported, 94 teachers inducted, establishment of 20 schools: Iqra\u2019s achievements<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIqra Fund is working in Northern Pakistan to empower local communities by imparting quality education to all the students, especially girls,\u201d said  Genevieve Walsh, CEO and Co-Founder of Iqra Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington D.C  : –  Genevieve Walsh, a US citizen from Las Vegas Nevada, made these remarks while talking to Ambassador Masood Khan at the Embassy of Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Walsh said that she first visited Pakistan in 2007, two years after the devastating earthquake killed 80,000 people. Inspired by a 13-year-old girl named Iqra, who had set up a tent school to teach the surviving children in the aftermath of the earthquake, Ms. Walsh named her organization as \u2018Iqra Fund\u2019 {IF} with an aim to establish high quality self-sustaining school systems in the remote, mountainous region of Northern Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Walsh said that since 2011, Iqra\u2019s strategic partnership with the government to transform non-functioning government schools has resulted in establishment of 20 village schools engaging 234 local women of the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fund has hired 94 teachers who have been trained and mentored as school and community leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Organization has successfully enrolled 4098 first generation students in Iqra Fund Schools including supporting 26 differently abled families and students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said that 70 first-generation college and university women have received scholarship from Iqra Fund. Ms. Walsh told the Ambassador that Iqra Fund {IF} has constructed 12 classrooms and 04 washrooms. It has also contributed towards maintaining 55 government classrooms and 19 washrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Walsh also briefed the Ambassador in detailed about her work in Basha valley outlining her priorities in Tissar village, Beisil and Doko Sabiri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appreciating her noble mission to equip students with steal armour to fight the battle of life, Ambassador Masood Khan observed that her mission was truly inspiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou are a symbol of friendship between the peoples of Pakistan and the United States,\u201d said Pakistan\u2019s envoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Masood Khan assured all possible facilitation to Ms. Genevieve Walsh in continuation of her mission in Northern areas of Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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