Four Zindagi Trust schools won prizes in the world’s largest Design for Change Pakistan Contest in November last year, in which children aged 8 to 13 identify and propose solutions to the problems their local communities face. The Award Certificate Ceremony for the winners of the competition was held at the Arts Council on the 31st of January 2012 along with a two-day travelling exhibition of this year’s winning stories of change. Students from 35 different schools whose winning stories of change were selected from 7000 entries from all over Pakistan were also present at the event. This was a memorable occasion for the students from Zindagi Trust’s non-formal schools for working children as well as those from our public school reform project’s flagship school, SMB Fatima Jinnah. They were very excited to be there to receive certificates and gift for their efforts, as well as interact with visitors and other students to exchange ideas. Some of them were questioned about their projects by teachers from other schools and their confident answers impressed everyone.
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• A teacher training workshop was held for the Rawalpindi region’s non-formal schools. The newly-appointed Kindergarten teachers were trained by the senior teachers and plans for the new year’s academic calendar were also discussed and finalized.

  

• The Rawalpindi region held an end-of-year meeting in which the best-performing schools and teachers of the Paid to Learn programme were commended.

• Cleanliness Week was observed in all the Paid to Learn schools across Pakistan to promote environmental awareness in the street children enrolled in our non-formal schools.