13/04/2016
A graduate of Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) is set to expand a small educational startup from a pilot program that digitally streams a high quality curriculum to classrooms of four and five year olds, to a large scale program that brings education to the millions of out of school children in Pakistan. Haroon Yasin, who graduated from Georgetown last year, first developed the innovative school project titled “Orenda” with a team of classmates (Ahwaz Akhtar, SFS ’16, Fatima Ramadan SFS ‘13) as a senior. Following graduation, his project to build sustainable classrooms in slums faced a major obstacle: the Pakistani government began to demolish the slums and relocate the very people he was trying to help, most of whom were refugees from Afghanistan. Find out more about this amazing initiative at www.orendaproject.org.
