"WAVE AUSTRALIA EDUCATION PROGRAM"
Undeniably, the role of education in transforming the lives of people is crucially important. Our current literacy rate is 56 percent which means that half of our country is illiterate. An estimated 22 million children majority of them girls are not going to school. WAVE believes that every child deserves to be better educated, nourished, and groomed. WAVE Organization in accordance with its resources is contributing to the future of young students. We provide the shelter for the students especially girls to study in a comfortable environment and maximize the attendance of students and teachers. Our objective was to ensure that children especially girls get another chance to complete their education. The children who didn’t go to school after the earthquake due to demolish school building again join their school for getting their aims of life.
“School Building Construction”
We have rebuild two high schools in AJK and handed over to Government Education Department of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Girls High School Mushtimba, Azad Kashmir accommodating 300 female students.
Higher Secondary School Kassiyan Halal Azad Kashmir accommodating 320 students.
Government Girls High School Mustimba Muzaffarabad AJK
Girls High School Mustimba has been completed in 2018 funded by WAVE Australia and constructed by CDRS, the only girl’s school in the 15km radius. The school was established in 1982 but unfortunately it was destroyed by the 1992s flood. The girls would sit on the bare and cold ground. In fact, lack of adequate educational facilities are the primary reason why most of the girls would drop out from high schools, despite AJK having one of the best enrolment rates at the primary school level. In remote areas of Azad Kashmir, most of the Schools have no buildings; Students are sitting under an open sky, during rains, snow, and hard weather which affect them badly.
The young girls of High School Mustimba, now have a roof over their heads and chairs to sit on for their noble aim of education. They have a bright future ahead of them.
Government Higher Secondary School Kassian Halal, Muzafarabad AJK
Kassiyan Hallal, a village near Muzafarabad, has a population of about 5,000. In the winter heavy snowfall cuts off the village from the main city and the isolated community further presents an image of a desolate landscape. Consequently, children are locked up inside the houses. This is how the problem starts – the students or the prospective leaders of the area are left with two choices: either be forced to sit on the cold and wet floor of schools or skip classes. This dilemma is further exacerbated, as the duration of snowfall also coincides with the end of the year examinations.
The area is fall among those areas that has highest primary school children in Pakistan. Most of the schools are yet to be rebuilt even after 14 years since the unfortunate earthquake of 2005.
