As Barakat supported schools bring their first month of studying to a close in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, we are grateful that our schools remain open in the face of difficult circumstances.

While we work within the bounds of externally imposed restrictions in each country, the schools are safe havens where teaching and learning is prioritized even though the world outside is in upheaval.

In each of these three neighboring countries, Barakat acts to level the playing field, so that children who would otherwise be left behind or kept within doors have the opportunity to study, to succeed. Our work impacts at the individual level in that it affects change in the lives of these students. It also acts at the level of the family: most of these girls and boys will becomes householders in years to come and direct the future of their own children. Lastly, Barakat educational programs impact at the level of the community: whether it is within the conservative Afghan refugee group based in Pakistan; or the towns of Andkhoy and Aqcha where the Taliban continue to hold power; or the red-light district of Benaras where the children of the prostitutes are considered the lowliest of the low among Indian society. These children will, however, rise above their circumstances and flower, if given the right conditions, the opportunities to do so.

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