Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) aspires to promote quality education for the girl child in far flung areas of Sindh through its core programs. The Home Schools Program (HSP) was started as pilot program in 1996 to create a low cost yet effective and replicable quality education model in areas where even boys’ schools do not exist. The program targets girls who have not had access to education. The Home Schools are established with collateral support from the community.

With the collaborative efforts of the partner NGOs/CBOs, communities and Village Education Committees (VECs), 100 Home Schools presently cater to more than 4000 girls in the far-flung villages of districts Umerkot, Mirpur Khas, Badin, Tando Muhammad Khan, Sanghar, Nawabshah, Jamshoro, Dadu, Larkana, Qamber-Shahdad Kot, Jacobabad and several towns of Karachi.

Community involvement is the vital thrust of this program; the VECs comprising of local people arrange for not only the school premises but are also actively involved in daily school matters and monitoring. Concurrently SEF plays the role of a facilitator, providing financial and technical assistance for the institutional support and capacity building of these schools.

OBJECTIVES

To encourage communities to set up local home-based learning institutions.

To work in partnership with the communities for providing institutional development and management support for promoting quality education at the grassroots.

To work towards providing access to low-cost, quality learning setups, especially for girls.

To help foster indigenous learning mechanisms through enhanced community and parental engagement in the program.

To facilitate in the capacity building process of direct and indirect program partners including NGOs/CBOs, teachers and community members.