AKRA

(ANJUMAN KHUDDAM-E-RASOOL ALLAH)

“Bringing education to the rural poor,

particularly to girls and women”

                   Anjuman Khuddam-e-Rasool Allah is a community based Non Government Organization (NGO), established in 1976 in Shergarh, at the heart of District Okara. AKRA has a reputation in the surrounding area for providing high quality education to boys and girls from Nursery to Intermediate. The Anjuman is also well known for its dispensary, and its role as a social welfare organization in and around Shergarh.

                   AKRA aims to improve life for the rural community and to this end it setup a coeducational primary school, with class 6 - 12 for girls, a boys secondary school and now 31 village primary schools in the district. Work is continuing to open further village schools and to expand those already running.

Aims of AKRA: -

                   Children in rural areas have little access to schools and girls have less educational facilities than boys. Women involved in agriculture and family work have often had no chance to learn to read and write. The project aims particularly to help this disadvantaged section of the community - rural girls and women - by provinding access to basic literacy, numeracy and health education. We aim to train groups of young women throughout Okara District so that they can develop teaching skills and set up schools in their own villages to provide basic primary education for boys and girls as well as adult literacy classes for women.