RMFHOAP HOME TUITIONS PROJECT

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RMF-HOAP HOME TUITIONS PROJECT
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Background

• The Oct 2005 earthquake in Pakistan left hundreds
  of survivors with spinal cord injuries (SCI),
  confined to their homes, burdening their resource
  poor families.
• Many SCI children were deprived of an education
  due to physiological immobility or wheelchair
  limitations in the rough mountainous terrain.
• These SCI children had already lost one year of
  schooling in 2005-6 and would most likely grow up
  to be homebound, illiterate and dependent on
  caregivers.

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Project proposal

• GOAL To promote productive and meaningful lives
• for SCI children
• AIM To sponsor teachers to give home
  tutoring
• to home bound SCI children
• The teachers will go to each child's house every
  day, Monday to Friday, for a predetermined number
  of hours and teach the local school curriculum
  according to the relevant grade.
• They will also get permission from the local
  board of education to conduct the examinations at
  the homes of their students.

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Beneficiaries

• The home bound SCI children
• Other children, especially girls, within the
  neighborhood of each SCI patient who are denied
  access to an education due to poverty and gender
  discrimination.
• Employment opportunities for locally qualified
  teachers

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Grant

• Grant made possible by funds raised by students
  of Patana Primary School, Bangkok, Thailand, led
  by Peter Hockley.
• In collaboration with Marc Gold from 100 Friends
  Project USA who made the mediation possible

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Selection of SCI children

• RMF-HOAP had adopted the medical welfare of three
  SCI children, in collaboration with Dr. Zeba
  Vanek from UCLA, who is sponsoring their upkeep.
• Teachers were hired from the communities of the
  SCI patients
• Monitoring and evaluation will be conducted by
  ground staff coordinator of the RMF-HOAP Health
  Unit in Talhatta

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Kaleemullah
Kaleemullah is a 9 yr old paraplegic. He lives in
a remote village in Batangi. The approach to his
house involves a 2 hour precarious jeep ride up a
torturous road Kaleem is in the 2nd grade. Five
boys (left) from his village are also studying
with him and they are in grade 1, 4,5 and 6.
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En route to the next child
On the way to Mian Rafiques home in Jabri
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Mian Rafique
Mian Rafique is a 15 year old paraplegic in grade
7. He has four girls cousins sharing his home
tuitions. Two (in the background) completed their
primary school till grade 5 and dropped out of
school due to gender pressures. Now they are able
to continue their education. The other two (not
in the picture) have never gone to school, so
they are in grade 1. Dr. Zeba (left) personally
delivered his monthly sponsor check
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Awais Rehman
Awais is a 14 year old paraplegic (center in
beige dress) and lives near Mian Rafique in
Jabri, so their teacher is the same. Awais is
very bright and managed to pass grade 7 exams
all on his own efforts. So he is now in grade 8.
Two boys (right) share his home tuitions and are
in grade 7 and 6
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(L-R) Dr. Rubina Mumtaz, Country Director RMF,
Dr. Zahoor, Health Coordinator RMF-HOAP Heal
Unit and Dr. Zeba Vanek, UCLA, Sponsor of all
these SCI children.
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We thank the young students of Patana Primary
School, Bangkok for their fund raising efforts.
We also thank Dr. Joanne Dish, Ms Rozina
Bhimani, Aparna Godavarthy, Dr. Ruth Ross, Kay
Wicker and Dr. Laila Gulzar for their donations
to RMF which have been incorporated in the Home
Tuitions project.