Introduction:
The education sector in Pakistan, especially in Sindh, confronts major obstacles in delivering quality education and reducing illiteracy rates. To address this issue and empower marginalized communities, prioritizing and strengthening non-formal education initiatives is crucial. This project aims to improve non-formal education programs in Sindh, focusing on enhancing literacy rates and providing essential skills to those who cannot access formal education systems.
Objective:
Enabling the learner to recognize, read, write and reflect with understanding, the purpose and message of simple sentences and texts, addresses, posters, signs, symbols, digits, numbers up to 1000 (in figures) and up to 50 (in writing) and perform arithmetic operations up to 2- digit numbers.
Center Established:
In the village Yar Muhammad Jatoi, located in the Union Council of Sial Taluka, District Dadu, a Non-Formal Basic Education (NFBE) center has been established. The center has successfully completed the education of three batches of learners, totaling 150 individuals, over a period of 12 months. Each batch underwent a course duration of 4 months.
Outcomes Achieved:
Women and adolescent girls have ability to read a simple paragraph with understanding, to express ideas in simple writing and to do basic calculations.
Benefitted 27 Adolescent girls and 23 women learners.
Taught 31 Adolescent girls and 19 women learners.
Benefitted 26 Adolescent girls and 24 women learners.
Total 150 Learners have been benefitted = from above activity
The Building Advanced Society through Integrated Community (BASIC) Development Foundation, also known as Basic Development Foundation, is a not for profit organization committed to improving the socio-economic conditions of underprivileged communities in Sindh province.