KARACHI: Zindigi-powered by JS Bank, The King’s Trust International and Pakistan Alliance for Girls Education (PAGE) have extended their efforts to empower young girls in Pakistan by signing Memorandum of Understanding to launch an expanded phase of ‘The Achieve Programme’. 

Achieve is social and emotional learning Programme that aims to provide young girls in Pakistan with core life skills such as confidence, communication, problem solving and emotional resilience. Building on success of its initial pilot in 2023, Pakistan chapter of “The Achieve Programme” has already empowered over 100 underserved girls from three schools in Islamabad and Swat. This next phase aims to broaden its impact, reaching out to an additional 200 young girls. Asma Anwar Head of CE, People and Culture at Zindigi said, “We are delighted to strengthen our collaboration with The King’s Trust International and PAGE Pakistan. Fajer Rabia Pasha, CEO-MD of PAGE remarked, “We are excited to bring Achieve Programme to even more adolescent girls from marginalised backgrounds.” Wasim Malik Head of Programmes-Asia and Middle East at The King’s Trust International commented, “All respondents felt an increase in their self-confidence and strongly agreed that participating in Achieve has increased their willingness to attend school more regularly.”