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While Terror Rages In Pakistan Children's Hearts Are Changed |
Would be bombers target those they feel are most influential in shaping the future of Pakistan, without understanding the power the rising generation holds. A few years ago, the key leader Peter Jamshed noticed the number of children roaming the streets on school days. Asking them why they weren’t at school, the children told Peter their parents could not afford to send them. (In Pakistan, each family must pay to send their children to school, so, sadly, much of the nation is illiterate.)
Peter decided to start an Elementary School in this dangerous nation and make education available for all. Today, Peter and Lubna are working towards larger buildings for their schools, believing they will quickly triple the number of Students once they have the room. Currently, more than 200 students attend the Little Angel’s Schools in Pakistan and are being given a chance to change their nation.
Not only has Victory Children’s Home’s worked in this partnership to open Elementary Schools, but we have endeavoured to open Vocational Schools to give a trade to men and women to support their families. Giving a woman a trade, such as sewing, gives them hope for a way out of their poverty, despair and dangerous circumstance, as well as their children.
It is from these same neighbourhoods that the uneducated kids are selected for training as militants in terror organizations such as Al Qaeda. By providing this education, any plans to torment, murder, and steal from the people in this troubled nation will be wiped out in a generation. So simple a gift is education, but it is power and life; it is way Pakistan will be set free.   | About The Nation of Pakistan |
| Population: | 176,242,949 | | Life expectancy at birth: | total population: 64.49 years male: 63.4 years female: 65.64 years | | Religions: | Muslim 95% (Sunni 75%, Shia 20%), other (includes Christian and Hindu) 5% | | Literacy: | definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 49.9% male: 63% female: 36% (2005 est.) | | Poverty | 40,000,000 people in Pakistan live below the poverty line. 30,000,000 of those living under the poverty line live in Rural areas. |
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