1. RMF-HOAP HOME TUITIONS PROJECT

2. Background The Oct 2005 earthquake in Pakistan left hundreds of survivors with spinal cord injuries (SCI), confined to their homes, burdening their resource poor families. Many SCI children were deprived of an education due to physiological immobility or wheelchair limitations in the rough mountainous terrain. These SCI children had already lost one year of schooling in 2005-6 and would most likely grow up to be homebound, illiterate and dependent on caregivers.

3. Project proposal GOAL: To promote productive and meaningful lives for SCI children AIM: To sponsor teachers to give home tutoring to home bound SCI children  The teachers will go to each child's house every day, Monday to Friday, for a predetermined number of hours and teach the local school curriculum according to the relevant grade.  They will also get permission from the local board of education to conduct the examinations at the homes of their students.

4. Beneficiaries The home bound SCI children Other children, especially girls, within the neighborhood of each SCI patient who are denied access to an education due to poverty and gender discrimination. Employment opportunities for locally qualified teachers

5. Grant Grant made possible by funds raised by students of Patana Primary School, Bangkok, Thailand, led by Peter Hockley. In collaboration with Marc Gold from ‘100 Friends Project USA” who made the mediation possible

6. Selection of SCI children RMF-HOAP had adopted the medical welfare of three SCI children, in collaboration with Dr. Zeba Vanek from UCLA, who is sponsoring their upkeep. Teachers were hired from the communities of the SCI patients Monitoring and evaluation will be conducted by ground staff coordinator of the RMF-HOAP Health Unit in Talhatta

7. Kaleemullah Kaleemullah is a 9 yr old paraplegic. He lives in a remote village in Batangi. The approach to his house involves a 2 hour precarious jeep ride up a torturous road Kaleem is in the 2 nd grade. Five boys (left) from his village are also studying with him and they are in grade 1, 4,5 and 6.

8. En route to the next child On the way to Mian Rafique’s home in Jabri

9. Mian Rafique Mian Rafique is a 15 year old paraplegic in grade 7. He has four girls cousins sharing his home tuitions. Two (in the background) completed their primary school till grade 5 and dropped out of school due to gender pressures. Now they are able to continue their education. The other two (not in the picture) have never gone to school, so they are in grade 1. Dr. Zeba (left) personally delivered his monthly sponsor check

10. Awais Rehman Awais is a 14 year old paraplegic (center in beige dress) and lives near Mian Rafique in Jabri, so their teacher is the same. Awais is very bright and managed to pass grade 7 exams all on his own efforts. So he is now in grade 8. Two boys (right) share his home tuitions and are in grade 7 and 6

11. (L-R) Dr. Rubina Mumtaz, Country Director RMF, Dr. Zahoor, Health Coordinator RMF-HOAP Heal Unit and Dr. Zeba Vanek, UCLA, Sponsor of all these SCI children.

12. We thank the young students of Patana Primary School, Bangkok for their fund raising efforts. We also thank Dr. Joanne Dish, Ms Rozina Bhimani, Aparna Godavarthy, Dr. Ruth Ross, Kay Wicker and Dr. Laila Gulzar for their donations to RMF which have been incorporated in the Home Tuitions project.