Barakat's Blog
| The Importance of Accompanying Microloans with Education in the Developing World |
Microloans can alleviate poverty and stabilize the developing world. To achieve success the microloans need to be accompanied with entrepreneurship training. |
| Pakistan Lowers 2009-10 Education Budget |
Pakistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in South Asia, and the government is decreasing its 2009-10 education budget. Decreasing the education resources makes Barakat and other non-profits work vital to attempting to reach the Millennium Development Goals. |
| Pakistan experiences worst refugee crisis since 1947 |
Many of Barakat's students in Afghanistan are refugees originally from Pakistan. Pakistan is experiencing its worst refugee crisis since partition from India in 1947. Aid agencies report that nearly three million people live in others' homes or schools, many without access to the millions of dollars in international aid.
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| India elects first woman speaker |
| India's parliament elected its first woman Speaker on June 3. Meira Kumar , 64, a former lawyer and diplomat, won the election unopposed. |
| Surviving the Flood: One Woman's Story |
The water was nearly 25 feet high. "It smashed everything; nothing was left,” said Khadija Agha, an Afghan refugee living in Pakistan whose home was destroyed in the floods. The only possessions she and her family were able to salvage were a few dresses and some pots. |
| Barakat Relief Reaches Pakistan Victims |
Thanks to the amazing generosity of Barakat’s supporters, Barakat has reached our goal of $10,000 for the first wave of support for 400 people who have fled to Attock, Pakistan, after their homes were destroyed in the country’s recent monsoon flooding.
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| For Afghan Women, Sowat is Middle Ground |
Noor Bibi has perfect vision, but she calls herself blind.
“Without literacy, I am the same as a blind person,” she explains. “I couldn’t read even a hospital’s board or a drugstore’s board. For this reason, I decided to become literate.”
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