Rural Schools

Sometimes accessing a school can be harder than covering the cost of school fees. There are many isolated and scattered villages with children who require an education though no accessible school exists.

MH Rural Community Schools serve children who live in areas like this and are typically located in rural areas and sometimes may only contain one or two classrooms. Most often, these schools are the children's only chance of getting an education.

Rural community schools are about providing basic access to school and we have already piloted this in Balochistan as one of the poorest parts of the rural world. Due to the success of these, further schools have been built all over Pakistan with the World Bank recognising and supporting our ability to penetrate into areas which were previously inaccessible.

Together, we plan to expand this on a much greater scale in another area with a similar evel of poverty and lack of access to education: sub Saharan Africa.

Schools of Excellence

Muslim Hands run pioneering Schools of Excellence as an investment into the quality and delivery of education for poor and orphan students. These schools serve orphans and poorer children free-of-charge with a tailor-made curriculum from our in-house educationalists as well as a uniform and school materials. Where students live far, a school bus is provided to ensure children can make their way to and from school on time and with ease.

All the schools are custom built so benefit from science laboratories, recreation facilities, auditoriums and purpose-built facilities. To deliver dynamic and engaging lessons, MH sifts out and trains the very best of new teaching talent to raise the aspirations and morale of students. Local fee-paying children also attend these schools as the teaching standards usually far exceed that of local school.

Schools of Excellence also act as 'beacon schools' and raise educational standard for neighbouring schools drastically increases as these best practices spread across our schools and are delivered to model, private and local schools also. Schools of Excellence have been built in Sudan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Niger, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mali, Sri Lanka and Gambia.

Model Schools

Where access to schools may exist, it is common to come across unprofessionally run and extremely under-resourced facilities which cause many children's education to suffer. Model schools run in areas where school conditions may be poor, class sizes too large and facilities limited.

They work to improve and provide better quality education than what is around. Students who attend Model Schools benefit from having teachers who have been given special teacher training and ongoing professional development.

Primarily serving orphans, our Model Schools are also attended by a small portion of local fee-paying children who recognise the higher quality of education which students benefit from. These fee-paying students in turn help subsidise some of the cost in providing education for the neediest orphans.

Vocational Training

There are times when individuals require relevant, practical skills and training to see them into work and a career. For this, MH has set up a series of Vocational Training Centres where individuals learn skills which translate into a means to earn a living.

So far, we have delivered courses in carpentry, IT, plumbing, tailoring and mobile phone repair. Though these seem an eclectic mix, these courses tend to the daily and practical needs for the community they work in.