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Education in a Pandemic: Keeping Our Students Learning During COVID-19
More than 180 countries have imposed national school closures, affecting more than 1.5 billion children and youth. It is difficult to imagine the potential losses that may accrue in learning for today’s young generation and for the development of their futures. For...
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Creating Access to Clean Water: Thaakat’s Water Project in Tharparkar
In the district of Tharparker a majority of the population lives in 200 rural villages spread across the area without clean water.
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DREAMS: A Year In Review 2019
Sharing some updates from the 2019 years from our DREAMS project site in Karachi, Pakistan in collaboration with partner Idara Al-Khair.
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This International Women’s Day meet Bushra, our first DREAMS graduate to pursue medicine
In Pakistan specifically, 80% of our 102 students at our college are female. Below we share the story of Bushra, who is actively pursuing an MBBS degree.
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Empowering Women in Pakistan Through Technical Skills
Women empowerment has been an important pillar in the work of Thaakat Foundation since its inception and we strive towards it at all project sites.
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Creating access for education combats disease while increasing health
In 2018, about 86% of the world’s children receive vaccines that protect them against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and measles, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia said. An estimated 6.3 million children under 15 years of age died in 2017, or 1 every 5...
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Ending Hunger Through Agriculture with the Ebankese Mushroom Farm
To increase food production and sustainability through agriculture, Thaakat Foundation partnered with the Konadu Basic School in Ghana in 2013. During that time, Clement Boamah was running a small makeshift school with proceeds from his farm projects. Boamah had a vision we helped to create into a reality by building a structure for classrooms. But as site costs grew, we knew we needed a site income.
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Help Us Eliminate Violence Against Women Through LOVE
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Violence against women is a widespread phenomenon resulting in human rights violations and often unreported due to the stigma, silence and shame surrounding it. The United Nations defines...
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10 Years of Our Feed the Need Basketball Tournament
We just wrapped up our Tenth Annual Feed the Need Basketball Tournament and it was arguably our best one yet. We had a record of 22 teams and 215 participants take part in the two-day event at the Oak Brook Park District.
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Our dedicated students in Pakistan
Most 13 year olds from Wangi Goth, an underprivileged area in the city of Karachi, Pakistan are breadwinners for their families. These children spend hours at work to earn a living for their families. Sajjad Ali, is one of these children, but he is also working...
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Help Us Spread Love
This month all donations are supporting the LOVE Campaign. To help create a world where women and girls are safe from violence, Thaakat is raising awareness of violence against women by honoring the plight of women worldwide though our campaign. We believe the best...
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How the Ebankese Mushroom Farm Became Our Cash Crop
(picture of crop house at the Ebankese farm) Roughly 80 percent of the world’s extremely poor people are estimated to live in rural areas, and around 60 percent work in agriculture. How do we find opportunities to create systemic, sustainable opportunities to help a...
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