Karachi: The lady teaching the children of fishermen for free

Majority of the fishermen and daily wage laborers live in the Maripur area of ​​Karachi and they do not have enough resources to educate their children except to feed themselves.

Getting an education was a dream for the children of Maripur area, especially for girls, but 20-year-old Sahiba Naz took the responsibility to fulfill the dream of these children.

Sahiba Naz is a student of BS Education in Jamia Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Lyari, Karachi. are

Talking to Independent Urdu, Sahiba Naz said that she is the only girl in the area who has continued her education and teaches children for free.

He started this school in 2016 during the days when he did his matriculation.

However, Sahiba intended to study further, but due to financial problems at home and the trend of not educating girls in the area, Sahiba’s family forbade her to pursue further education.

But then Sahiba started teaching the children of her community for free at her home and in this way she continued to teach the children for three years, but while teaching them again, she came to the idea that due to the lack of English education, those children did not learn English. She is not able to teach because she got her education up to matriculation in a government school where there was no tendency to study in English.

According to Sahiba, she thought that she would have to either stop teaching or study more because she wanted to teach the children English further, but even after three years, her family did not want her to study further. They did not agree.

Sahiba celebrated her father by doing as much as she did and after three years she resumed her education journey by re-entering the college and continuing to teach children more.

Sahiba now teaches more than 70 children daily in a school built in her living room, the small school is named ‘The Education House’ which means house of education because Sahiba started it from her home. Is.

Sahiba further said that apart from teaching the children, she also teaches the women of her community to acquire skills through the internet to make them independent and two days a week the children also use computers and typing using their laptops. Teaches etc.

Sahiba had collected some money with which she bought her jewellery, but to teach children and women about computers and internet, she sold her jewelery and took some loan to buy a laptop.

Giving a message to other girls, Sahiba said that ‘if you will continue to strive for your goal, you will definitely get your destination one day and you should not be afraid of difficult times, but you should fight it.’