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Women Empowerment Center March 16TH
Assalaamlaikum how are you I hope everything is well with you. I have been asked to help out with HOAP to start a chapter here in Houston. Well I met a very interesting person a couple of weeks ago and wanted to bring her to light. Her name is Cristal Montanez and she is from Venezuela. She had worked for Unicef and for the Red Cross, and has committed herself to many public service positions. Currently she is with a group called HOAP and its focus is on empowering women in 3rd world countries. She has been to Pakistan and to Gilgit and has been working with Sara Hashwani of Pakistan. She lives in Houston and is very interested in meeting women, in particular Pakistani. She would like to arrange a small informal gathering and discuss her plans and get feedback from people like yourselves. This Friday March 16Th at the Uptown Village Cafe Express 7:30PM, some of us are sitting down with her. You are more then welcome to join us would be great if you bring friends or family.
Waleed Ali 832 860 5262
hoap.org.pk hoapinternational.org
Here is more details on HOAP Program below:
Women Empowerment Center
Establishment of Women Empowerment Centers (WECs) is one of the key initiatives of HOAP that focuses on promoting gender equity in access to higher education. The goal of WECs is to enhance access to higher education for young women from remote parts of Northern Areas and Chitral. WECs established by HOAP are hybrids between Education and Skills Development programs of HOAP and comprise of residential facilities and training components. These WECs enable female students from remote and educationally backward areas to access higher education by providing residential facilities close to the institutions of higher learning. The training component provides free-of-cost trainings, including English Language courses and computer skills to the residents. The residents are also trained in a range of other life skills that are important to succeed in professional and personal lives such as interpersonal skills, management skills, conflict resolution, personal hygiene etc.
Non residents are also able to utilize the facility for training in English language and computer skills at discounted rates. These include women who live in the same town or surrounding villages, and for various cultural reasons are unable to attend the trainings in centers located in commercial areas. To ensure easy access to the training center non-residents are also given a pick and drop facility at discounted rates. The income generated from the training center contributes towards the financial sustainability of the WECs.
So far HOAP has established three WECs, one each in Gilgit, Chitral and Rawalpindi. The table below contains information about the year of establishment and capacity of residential facilities in each WEC.
Life Skills Programme
Background
Life skills training comprises a range of activities essential to competing in today?s challenging job market. These include presentation and interactive skills, none of which is addressed by existing academic programmes in Pakistan.
HOAP?s education programme takes all-round personal development seriously, given the need to build up leadership skills. To become leaders, young people must be helped to develop the ability to think creatively about the issues to be solved. Moreover, they must have the confidence to be able to identify and harness strengths in fellow community members; in other words they must be able to create team spirit. They must also have the ability to negotiate respectfully with competing interests, aware of the overarching interest of the community as a whole.
How Does the Programme Work?
HOAP sees life skills as an essential part of its Education Programme. Workshops in aspects of personal development taught through methods such as role-play are held regularly at the student residences.
In 2005, HOAP Scholarship students participated in two special day-long programmes. The first was the HOAP-organized career guidance programme on different aspects of engineering, which was addressed by professionals from seven engineering colleges/universities and corporations. Among the 250 Matric/F.Sc. and O level/A Level students who benefited from this forum were HOAP Scholars and students from schools/colleges in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Mardan and Taxila.
The second event was the HOAP-sponsored students? get-together held in August 2005, attended by 315 scholars. This was entirely planned and managed by the students themselves. Presentations included dramas, debates, singing competitions and cultural performances. The students also listened to talks by two distinguished professional figures, Mr Asim Shafiq (a national tennis player) and Mr Mitha (an expert life skills counsellor).
In 2005, the Life Skills Programme was streamlined to give more young people the chance to develop as ?allrounders?. A Life Skills Coordinator was appointed and tasked to develop a full modular programme comprising:
? Developing a programme framework on the basis of research
? Collecting information from student residents and developing a baseline data sheet
? Developing a strategy, devising tools and carrying out a needs assessment
How Will the Programme Grow in Future?
? The life skills programme will be introduced in the Women?s Empowerment Centre (WEC), Gilgit and the Women?s Empowerment Centre planned for Chitral. The intention is that all HOAP scholars ? resident and non-resident ? will eventually have access to the programme. The vision is that the programme will be delivered to institutions and organizations beyond HOAP, including schools and colleges.
? HOAP plans to formalize career-counselling sessions and organize student interaction with professionals to give students access to new perspectives and exposure to a wide range of personalities and sources of information. They need to hear from people with first-hand experience what the exact nature of job market requirements are.
HOAP Students? Residences
Background
HOAP student residences were set up to provide accommodation for HOAP scholarship students. Many of them had come from their homes in the remote regions of Northern Pakistan to Islamabad and Rawalpindi to pursue higher studies.
How Does the Programme Work?
The residences not only provide accommodation for HOAP scholarship students, they also create the ideal environment for introducing co-curricular activities, including workshops in aspects of personal development. Workshop activities are designed to build interactive and professional skills that will be useful to students in their future lives as citizens and leaders.
In 2005, residences accommodated some self-financing students with strong academic backgrounds. This made a well-resourced shared living environment accessible to a greater range of young people, with benefits for both sides.
In October 2005, the girls? residence in Islamabad was merged with the girls? residence in Rawalpindi. At the end of the year, 105 female students enjoyed accommodation facilities, while the boys? residence in Rawalpindi housed a total of 55 boys.
How Will the Programme Grow in Future?
? The aim is to balance the intake of non-self-financing students with those who are self-financing.
? Aware of the demand for quality accommodation in the north of the country where new residences are being located, the plan is to set up a resource centre/library in each residence.
Waleed Ali 832 860 5262
hoap.org.pk hoapinternational.org
Here is more details on HOAP Program below:
Women Empowerment Center
Establishment of Women Empowerment Centers (WECs) is one of the key initiatives of HOAP that focuses on promoting gender equity in access to higher education. The goal of WECs is to enhance access to higher education for young women from remote parts of Northern Areas and Chitral. WECs established by HOAP are hybrids between Education and Skills Development programs of HOAP and comprise of residential facilities and training components. These WECs enable female students from remote and educationally backward areas to access higher education by providing residential facilities close to the institutions of higher learning. The training component provides free-of-cost trainings, including English Language courses and computer skills to the residents. The residents are also trained in a range of other life skills that are important to succeed in professional and personal lives such as interpersonal skills, management skills, conflict resolution, personal hygiene etc.
Non residents are also able to utilize the facility for training in English language and computer skills at discounted rates. These include women who live in the same town or surrounding villages, and for various cultural reasons are unable to attend the trainings in centers located in commercial areas. To ensure easy access to the training center non-residents are also given a pick and drop facility at discounted rates. The income generated from the training center contributes towards the financial sustainability of the WECs.
So far HOAP has established three WECs, one each in Gilgit, Chitral and Rawalpindi. The table below contains information about the year of establishment and capacity of residential facilities in each WEC.
Life Skills Programme
Background
Life skills training comprises a range of activities essential to competing in today?s challenging job market. These include presentation and interactive skills, none of which is addressed by existing academic programmes in Pakistan.
HOAP?s education programme takes all-round personal development seriously, given the need to build up leadership skills. To become leaders, young people must be helped to develop the ability to think creatively about the issues to be solved. Moreover, they must have the confidence to be able to identify and harness strengths in fellow community members; in other words they must be able to create team spirit. They must also have the ability to negotiate respectfully with competing interests, aware of the overarching interest of the community as a whole.
How Does the Programme Work?
HOAP sees life skills as an essential part of its Education Programme. Workshops in aspects of personal development taught through methods such as role-play are held regularly at the student residences.
In 2005, HOAP Scholarship students participated in two special day-long programmes. The first was the HOAP-organized career guidance programme on different aspects of engineering, which was addressed by professionals from seven engineering colleges/universities and corporations. Among the 250 Matric/F.Sc. and O level/A Level students who benefited from this forum were HOAP Scholars and students from schools/colleges in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, Mardan and Taxila.
The second event was the HOAP-sponsored students? get-together held in August 2005, attended by 315 scholars. This was entirely planned and managed by the students themselves. Presentations included dramas, debates, singing competitions and cultural performances. The students also listened to talks by two distinguished professional figures, Mr Asim Shafiq (a national tennis player) and Mr Mitha (an expert life skills counsellor).
In 2005, the Life Skills Programme was streamlined to give more young people the chance to develop as ?allrounders?. A Life Skills Coordinator was appointed and tasked to develop a full modular programme comprising:
? Developing a programme framework on the basis of research
? Collecting information from student residents and developing a baseline data sheet
? Developing a strategy, devising tools and carrying out a needs assessment
How Will the Programme Grow in Future?
? The life skills programme will be introduced in the Women?s Empowerment Centre (WEC), Gilgit and the Women?s Empowerment Centre planned for Chitral. The intention is that all HOAP scholars ? resident and non-resident ? will eventually have access to the programme. The vision is that the programme will be delivered to institutions and organizations beyond HOAP, including schools and colleges.
? HOAP plans to formalize career-counselling sessions and organize student interaction with professionals to give students access to new perspectives and exposure to a wide range of personalities and sources of information. They need to hear from people with first-hand experience what the exact nature of job market requirements are.
HOAP Students? Residences
Background
HOAP student residences were set up to provide accommodation for HOAP scholarship students. Many of them had come from their homes in the remote regions of Northern Pakistan to Islamabad and Rawalpindi to pursue higher studies.
How Does the Programme Work?
The residences not only provide accommodation for HOAP scholarship students, they also create the ideal environment for introducing co-curricular activities, including workshops in aspects of personal development. Workshop activities are designed to build interactive and professional skills that will be useful to students in their future lives as citizens and leaders.
In 2005, residences accommodated some self-financing students with strong academic backgrounds. This made a well-resourced shared living environment accessible to a greater range of young people, with benefits for both sides.
In October 2005, the girls? residence in Islamabad was merged with the girls? residence in Rawalpindi. At the end of the year, 105 female students enjoyed accommodation facilities, while the boys? residence in Rawalpindi housed a total of 55 boys.
How Will the Programme Grow in Future?
? The aim is to balance the intake of non-self-financing students with those who are self-financing.
? Aware of the demand for quality accommodation in the north of the country where new residences are being located, the plan is to set up a resource centre/library in each residence.