The Pakistani education system currently suffers from inequality in educational outcomes on a massive scale. There are significant variations in the quality of education provided from one child to the next, both between schools and within schools. This is the pervasive issue of a lack of equity in literacy.
To combat this challenge, United We REACH, a Lahore based NGO is working to combine cutting-edge technology with modern pedagogy, thereby providing an effective and scalable method of providing quality education. UWR works in collaboration with government schools and provides scripted lessons to teachers through a tablet-based delivery system, allowing teachers to ensure that every lesson in every UWR affiliated school is taught exactly the same way. Tablet-based teaching is groundbreaking not only because it lends itself to scalability, but also because it allows close supervision of each teacher in each UWR affiliated school. It is the undivided effort and persistence of Sabahat Rafiq, the co-founder and Executive Director of United We REACH which has enabled more than 500 schools across Pakistan.
Published in Daily Times, August 29th 2018.
