Since its inception in the 1997, DIL has successfully established over 250 girls’ schools in some of the poorest, most remote areas in Pakistan’s four provinces. Our main aim is to provide quality education, primarily free of cost, to girls living in rural areas and in communities where very little development has taken place. As of December 2018, 24,240 students were being educated in DIL schools in Pakistan. The education they receive is secular with a strong emphasis on the math, sciences and proficiency in English. DIL’s aim is to equip students with the skills needed to compete in the job market.
DIL also runs teacher-training programmes, which are available to all DIL graduates and all its employees, through which DIL seeks to continually improve the quality of education offered in its schools. DIL is now developing vocational training courses (VTC) to provide further support to the communities in which DIL’s schools are located. DIL’s VTC programmes target young women, the families of DIL students, and the local communities where DIL schools are located. One of the first VTC’s to be established by DIL will provide vocational training to the DIL school community in Orangi, which is located in Karachi and is one of the largest squatter settlements in the world.
