Our Programs.
Scholarships and bursaries to support education in elementary schools, high schools, colleges and vocational programs. Build learning environments through constructing and equipping libraries, reading rooms, computer hubs and small group sharing spaces. Educate children, youth and communities on nutrition, health and cleanliness. Support healthy meals in schools and fellowship meals in the poorest communities.
WAYS WE SERVE
Total Enrolled Students
School Uniforms
Each child attending school receives 2 sets of uniform and a pair of shoes at the beginning of each academic year.
English Medium Schools
Open Hands Global supports bursaries for education in local, reputable English-medium schools. The eligible children come from families that make less than $3 per day.
Transport
OHG provides full transportation, in air-conditioned vans, to and from school and to any additional extracurricular learning trips.
Books and Stationary
New books and school supplies provided to all students each year.
Healthy Meal
OHG understands that it’s hard to learn on an empty stomach. A healthy meal is provided for all children and staff at the both sites.
After School Program
OHG runs an after-school program, 6 days a week, 4 hours a day to overcome the gap where parents are unable to assist the children with their homework. Academic progress of the children is closely monitored.
Chak Jalal Din - Rawalpindi
Slum Community
Chak Jalal Din is a slum community, located in the outskirts of Rawalpindi, Pakistan. This impoverished community of more than 4000 families is marginalized because of its religion and occupations. Many men of this community work in sanitation cleaning sewers or collecting refuse. Some are scrap collectors. The women are illiterate and provide domestic help for the
affluent in bigger nearby towns and cities. The children of this community, either accompany their mothers to help or roam the streets unattended.
These families live in dilapidated houses constructed over open sewers and lead vulnerable lives because of environmental risks (unclean water & food and lack of social networks).
Community Centre
OHG laid the foundation for a Community Centre within the Chak Jalal Din community in February 2019. The building was completed in December 2020. A permanent building to run OHG programs ensures the sustainability and expansion of the program over many years. The hope is that the Centre will be a central hub for all community children and youth to access essential social, educational and health programs.
The two-storey structure is complete with a large meeting hall and a kitchen, ideal for community gatherings, health camps, wellness programs and shared meals. The second floor has a computer and library space along with several rooms to conduct after school activities, adult literacy classes, teacher trainings, smaller group meetings, educational video and movie screenings.
We are looking to furnish the space with children desks and chairs, TVs, computers, printers and office furniture.
Kadlathia – Sheikhupura
Bhatta (Brick kiln) Community
Kadlathia village is located in the outskirts of Sheikhupura, twenty kilometers from Lahore, Pakistan. This is a bhatta (brick kiln) worker community of 117 families. Almost all men of the village are illiterate, and work on brick kilns and bring their wives and children to help. Such communities have suffered enslavement for generations and trapped in a perpetual cycle of debt taken out by their fathers and grandfathers. Children are forced to work hours that are more than those of an adult and they can sometimes work overnight like slaves to help pay the debt of their parents. Brick kilns are heavy physical work – awkward working postures cause a variety of musculoskeletal disorders. Manual handling of material causes hand burns. Working in extreme heat causes heat strokes. Constantly breathing in dust and smoke leads to respiratory illnesses and symptoms causing more harm to younger children.
Community Centre – Coming soon
OHG has acquired 25 marla (6806 sq. ft) land and started to build a Community Centre for the children and youth of Kadlathia village. Our hope is to provide permanence to the Bhatta project and have a safe, comfortable and well-equipped learning space for the children of this community.