Pakistan faces an educational emergency with disastrous human consequences.

• A third of all Pakistanis have spent less than two years at school.
• There are over 40 million school age children; half cannot read a sentence.
• 25 million children in Pakistan do not get education, a right guaranteed in the country's constitution.
• Only one third of  women in rural Pakistan can read
• Yet…. funding for schools has been cut from 2.5% of GDP in 2005 to just 1.5% - less than the national airline gets in subsidies.

BBC (2011 March)

Agahi is:

• Developing and supporting community-based schools in Mansehera District in North West Pakistan;
• Bringing quality education to rural schools by training teachers to use child-centred approaches;
• Creating opportunities for better, more prosperous livelihoods for Mansehera families, especially women and girls;
• Reducing the risk of children being used in warfare.

Since 1996, Agahi has:

• Built 8 schools, with 58 classrooms for over 1500 girls and boys;
• Trained over 200 women as teachers, some of whom work in Agahi while most of the others in private and government schools;
• Established management structures in each community to govern and support their schools.