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| Child Rights Activists launch campaign to End Child Domestic Labour in Pakistan |
| Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) launched an alliance-based national campaign with many partners to end Child Domestic Labour (CDL) in Pakistan. The World Day against Child Labour on June 12, 2020 gave a rallying call by child rights activists to lead the National Movement for ending CDL in Pakistan through Child Champions. As #JusticeForZohraShah became symbolic for the resolve that CDL has to end in Pakistan, this National Campaign is a joint effort for child protection, development and gender rights as promised by Prime Minister Imran Khan. At least 30 child champions have joined hands working in sub-committees of advocacy/letters, legislation, posters/slogans and social media/media. |
 The campaign includes raising voice against CDL, capacity building of child champions and enabling their role in ending CDL in Pakistan, raising awareness about fundamental rights of children and related laws, and demanding the government, parliamentarians, society and families to end CDL. It's time to give Agency to Children to take their cause forward and become their own voice of protection!
Let promises not be in vain! No more violations of Zohra Shahs in Pakistan! #EndCDL
http://itacec.org/Campaign-to-End-Child-Domestic-Labor
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| Child Champions share their responses to #EndCDL in the form of drawings and posters. Raise your voice against this social evil and become a child champion by using the hashtag #EndCDL. |
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| Child Champions become the voice of children engaged in domestic labour. They want to work for a society where children are guaranteed their fundamental rights, where they all are treated equally and are protected from the filthy practice of Child Domestic Labour. |
| ITA hosts webinar on COVID-19 and Inclusive Education |
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 ITA hosted a public webinar on June 30, 2020 titled "COVID-19 and Inclusive Education: Global Practices and Lessons for Pakistan”. The event brought together the thought-leaders and practitioners to discuss the options available for the education of ALL children during COVID-19 and share the practices which are most relevant in the context of developing countries in general and Pakistan in particular.
The panelists included Ian Attfield (Senior Education Advisor, South Asia Region – DFID), Bilal Barakat (Senior Policy Analyst, GEM Report), Nafisa Baboo (Director Inclusive Education, Light for the World), Richard Geary (Founder and Director Programs, FESF Pakistan), Munazza Gillani (Country Director Pakistan, Sightsavers) and Aamad Ali Yousafzai (Former Equity Lead, PESP 2/Cambridge Education). The webinar was moderated by Baela Raza Jamil (CEO, ITA). The webinar concluded with an agreement to form a national core group for Inclusive Education.
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| ITA COVID-19 journey: New Cadre of Learners and Teachers |
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ITA teams made an organized effort to ultimately offer multiple learning solutions with protection under the "Corona Saviours/Muhafiz" campaign. This COVID-19 Response Journey by ITA has resulted in an extraordinary Cadre of Learners who are promoting learning using understanding through observations. The key dimensions of this new cadre are Learner Agency, High Trust across Groups/Individuals, Distance Learning/EdTech, Collaborative Teams, Across Disciplines and Social-Emotional Care. |
| We're proud of our teachers and staff members who are out and about in the field, teaching students while taking necessary precautions against COVID-19. These are the new cadre of learners! |
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| Teachers’ training sessions |
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ITA is holding online teachers’ training sessions every week to help teachers overcome the hurdles in the way of learning during COVID-19 and use innovative techniques to engage students in the learning process. |
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Teacher's Training Sessions held about '‘Remote Learning' and 'Teaching through Storytelling'. |
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| Life Skills for Kids (LSK) |
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LSK is an initiative of ITA, Stora Enso and Bulleh Shah Packaging to provide life skill based education to the children aged 5-15 who are intensely involved in rag picking. These children went from trash picking to getting education and vocational skills with the help of ITA. LSK students are being engaged in multiple online learning and creative activities as a response to Coronavirus. |
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LSK students continue to draw amid school closure.
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Stories by Children during COVID-19: Mobeen Abdul Sattar, a class 6 student of LSK, once a rag picker now a grade 6 student and author.
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Puppets for learning: LSK students make puppets after a storytelling and puppet-making workshop by ITA.
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In a moment of great pride, ASER 2019 findings have been featured in the prestigious Economic Survey of Pakistan 2019-20
http://www.finance.gov.pk/survey/
chapter_20/10_Education.pdf (Chapter 10, pp. 211-212).
Meanwhile, ITA and ASER Pakistan being proud partners of PAL Network are excited to announce the launch of ICAN (International Common Assessment of Numeracy). ICAN is a robust, open-source assessment of foundational numeracy aligned to SDG 4.1.1(a). ICAN has been implemented as a large-scale proof of concept in a district each of 13 countries, spread across 3 continents. The ICAN report will be launched virtually on July 9, 2020 from 10:00-11:30 am EST. https://palnetwork.org/ican/
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 The Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report 2020 was launched on June 25, 2020. The 2020 GEM Report calls on us to broaden our definition of inclusion so that #AllmeansALL regardless of identity, background or ability. ITA has proudly contributed a background research paper and Pakistan's country profile on inclusion and education to the GEM Report 2020.
Read the new GEM Report 2020 on inclusion and education. https://en.unesco.org/gem-report/report/2020/inclusion
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| Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) |
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 In a proud moment, Children's Literature Festival made it to the National Education Challenge 2020 by National Incubation Center, Karachi among 24 other finalists. CLF will be launching STORYBYTES by Learning Flipped. Stay tuned for more updates on this.
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Pull Some Strings: Puppet Making and Storytelling with CLF
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CLF pulled off a wonderful online creativity in collaboration with British Council Pakistan and CLF-ITA teams on June 5, 2020 where children learnt Puppet Making; Vocabulary building, Storytelling through Puppets and Online Learning on Microsoft Teams/Facebook.
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| ITA is successfully running Corona Saviours campaign to make behavior change a reality by giving powerful information for prevention against Coronavirus using messages in English, Urdu and Sindhi. Under the campaign, we are sharing awareness posters/pamphlets, using social media to reach the people, sharing motivational messages by Corona Saviours and Goodwill Ambassadors, engaging children in creative and artistic activities, partnering with other civil society and youth-led organizations, approaching High-Tech, Low-Tech and No-Tech community and spreading awareness about Mental Health, Gender Based Violence, LSBE and SRHR. http://itacec.org/CoronaSaviours |
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| The responsibility lies on all of us to prevent COVID-19. Messages by our young Corona Saviours. Register as Corona Saviours at http://itacec.org/Corona-Saviours-Register or email at CoronaSaviours@itacec.org |
| Safe Internet and School Outreach Program (SIOSP) |
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 ITA, in partnership with Telenor Pakistan, is organizing an internationally recognized 1-hour training/orientation sessions on “Safe Internet Program” for the middle and high school students (between 9-15 years of age) and teachers across Pakistan. These trainings aim to educate the children of Pakistan on the safe use of internet and is provided free of cost. Several chains like Roots Millennium, Roots International, Beaconhouse School System, The City School, Trust Schools, SOS, Bazeecha Trust and many more have joined us on this program, enabling us to train over 12,000 students and 500 teachers across all provinces of Pakistan within a month’s time.
Since it was not possible to conduct physical trainings in classrooms due to COVID-19, SIOSP teams adopted a digital/online approach with the aim of conducting training sessions as part of online/virtual classrooms at schools. These include using online mediums like Zoom, MS Teams, Whatsapp Groups & other platform that support mass online delivery.
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 ITA's Siyani Sahelian programme is giving a second chance to out of school adolescent girls (and boys) to complete primary, middle and secondary education along with tech-enabled learning, life skills and vocational skills. As Siyani Sahelian hubs are closed due to COVID-19, some of our students are using tech-enabled learning to continue with their studies while others are mastering their tailoring skills. |
 Siyani Saheliyan continue with the production of protective gears and facemasks. Place your orders now! |
 Siyani Sahelian has partnered with EdTech Worx, a digital course creation and delivery platform that would help in the design and implementation of a state-of-the-art entrepreneurial training program for Siyani Sahelian. This will create something unique for Siyani Sahelian as well as pave the way for their entrepreneurial paths. |
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| Lockdown for COVID-19 demands rapid-response strategies to protect women and girls from domestic violence. For this, ITA’s Creating Spaces team, in collaboration with Oxfam in Pakistan, organized online meetings with Parliamentarians and officials to discuss government interventions and upcoming plans to protect women during COVID-19 under the title "Violence Against Women and COVID -19: A conversation with Influencers on Legal Frameworks". |
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 To improve women hygiene during lockdown, ITA in collaboration with Oxfam in Pakistan distributed hygiene kits among needy women of district Jhelum, Gujarat, Rawalpindi and Sialkot |
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| On June 5, 2020, ITA celebrated World Environment Day and children showed the best of their creativity with plants. Communities and parents also helped the children to play their part in saving the environment. |
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| On June 5, 2020, ITA celebrated World Environment Day and children showed the best of their creativity with plants. Communities and parents also helped the children to play their part in saving the environment. |
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