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The Read Foundation has made special efforts to establish libraries in its schools thereby serving to the educational needs of poor and underprivileged students. Although a majority of our schools has their own libraries, yet most of these require up-gradation. You can help us to provide more facilities to the far-flung rural children of Pakistan. Please donate for broadening the horizons of the children through libraries. Breakdown of donation cost for Library room supplies and construction
RATIONALE FOR CURRENCY-BASED VARIATION The educational cost of each orphan varies based on age, build, gender, schooling level, and institution type, quality of education, tuition fee rate and the nature of allied provisions as well as the overall economic condition of the country. The lowest average cost of a male student of class/grade III amounts to PKR 9000 while the cost of a girl student at higher secondary boarding school level reaches PKR36’000. The paying capacity of average Pakistanis, in relation to per capita income, is so low that they cannot be expected to meet the actual cost of each orphan student. There are many individual donors who are extremely keen to participate in our educational program but the affordability aspect forces them to pay rupees 250 to 600 per month. Read Foundation, therefore, created a pool of funds, including zakat (obligatory charity on Muslims if they earn more than a certain amount) and sadaqat (voluntary charity), for addressing the overall educational needs of all orphan students. Through exhaustive consultations, precedents and parallel practices, the sponsorship amounts for other countries were fixed. The most basic package that Read Foundation provides to orphan students includes: uniform (summer and winter clothing); shoes, socks, school bags, stationery, text books and tuition fee that varies school to school and class to class. Almost all such students are day scholars and they live either with their mothers or relatives (guardians) save the girls students studying in high and higher secondary schools with boarding and lodging facilities. Read Foundation provides all required educational supplies and pays tuition fee to respective schools from the day one as soon as an orphan enrolls in a respective school, whereas, it takes a while to get them sponsored by individual or corporate sponsors. The pooling of funds enables the organization to cater their needs prior to securing sponsorships. |
The students are required to study extensively besides their syllabi. As all of the students cannot purchase a wide range of books, a well-furnished library in a school can address this problem. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of libraries in the entire education system in Pakistan.