Dear HOPE Friends,
2024 Ends and 2025 Launches with a HOPE Field Trip to Azad Kashmir 🏔️ - Featuring Jehlum Valley
By the Grace of God, we concluded an eventful 2024 and leaped into 2025 on a promising and hopeful note!
The HOPE Field Team is currently in the Northern Areas of Pakistan 🇵🇰 visiting our Home Schools 🏫 and Maternal and Child 👩🏻🍼 Health Centers 🏥 in these regions. As always, included in our efforts and a mainstay feature of these trips is to distribute winter gear 🌨️(jackets 🧥, sweaters , jeans 👖), school supplies 🎒, blankets 🛏️, along with food 🍱 to underserved children and adults in these communities.
Over the next few weeks, we will be releasing a variety of updates with regards to this fruitful trip ✨.
The pictures below feature our recent visit to three of our Home Schools in Jehlum Valley, Azad Kashmir 🏔️: Parhor Home School, Habib Dori Home School, and Dhani Bakala Home School. It is difficult to understate the remoteness of this region and how difficult it is to access areas due to the rough terrain in the Northern Areas. These villages are approximately 25 miles from Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir, but can only be traversed by a vehicle 🛻 up to a certain point. From there, the one hour trek to the top must be on foot🚶🏻♀️as the roads are not 🚫 accessible by vehicles.
HOPE operates a network of 40 Home Schools 🏫 across Azad Kashmir 🏔️ which provide a quality education 🎓 to underserved children in these remote mountaintop regions. Altogether, our Home School network across Pakistan 🇵🇰 caters to 9,000 underprivileged students, 2,000 of whom reside in Azad Kashmir 🏔️ .
During this journey, we were kindly accompanied by Jehlum Valley, Azad Kashmir 🏔️ Councilor, Syed Jawad Hussain Hamdani, and a gracious supporter behind our progress in Azad Kashmir. We wish to extend our heartfelt gratitude ✨ to Councilor Hamdani for his support and loyalty and the entire Azad Kashmir team's collaboration for over ten years.
Among our other special guests was Mr. Sadiq who had come from Karachi 🌆 along with his family to share in the blessings ✨ of giving to those less fortunate. As always, we are honored when guests take time out of their busy schedules to travel long distances in order to instill in their children the value of charity ❤️🩹.
Much gratitude and appreciation 💕 to our supporters for helping us secure the building blocks for working towards poverty alleviation throughout Pakistan 🇵🇰.
Warm regards,
The HOPE USA 🇺🇸 🇵🇰, HOPE UK 🇬🇧 🇵🇰, and HOPE Pakistan 🇵🇰 Teams
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