Fifty Pakistani English language teachers who successfully completed the U.S. Embassy-sponsored 10-week E-Teacher Scholarship program presented on their experience at a four-day conference in Islamabad. Participants graduated from courses focused on topics such as Critical Thinking, Assessment, TESOL Methodology, Education Technology, Teaching Reading, and Differentiated Learning. American Embassy Regional English ...
English skills lead to better jobs and educational prospects, and 100 young people from suburban Islamabad will now have that chance through the U.S. Embassy’s English Access Microscholarship Program at Air University in Islamabad. At an inauguration ceremony for the new program, John Hoover, the American Embassy’s Deputy Chief of ...
Impressed by the vibrancy of the Pakistan-U.S. Alumni Network (PUAN), Khayam M. Beg led the leadership of the PUAN Gilgit Chapter and voyaged for almost 20 hours amidst the intense weather on ragged roads to arrive in Islamabad for the eighth annual meeting of the PUAN National Executive Committee (NEC). ...
The following is a heartfelt post by Fulbright alumna, Amna Yameen, describing her journey as a Pakistani, Muslim student in the U.S. on a Fulbright scholarship. She returned in 2016 with a Master’s degree in Human Resource Development from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Love. That is the first word ...
From a young age, Naveed Hameed, confronted numerous instances where he suffered from discrimination simply because he belonged from a different background than those around him. This instances ensured his believe in hope and made him realize how it felt to be discriminated. Soon after, Naveed learned that discrimination was not just ...
Madiha Hamid traveled to the United States on a U.S. government-funded program to attend the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in the Silicon Valley, California. She is a tech-entrepreneur by profession and runs her own ventures.We recently sat down with Madiha for a conversation while enjoying a plate of biryani, prepared ...
Program Overview: Community Development Initiatives (CDI) provide small grant opportunities for Global UGRAD-Pakistan alumni to utilize the leadership skills they developed during their program in the United States to create and implement projects that address a need in their local communities. This small grant provides an opportunity for alumni ...
The following op-ed is written by the United States Ambassador to Pakistan, David Hale, and was published in English in The Nation on December 10, 2017. Each year, we observe 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (GBV). Established in 1999 by the United Nations General Assembly, this campaign offers a global platform ...
Shazia Akhter Baloch is a Human Rights Activist and a Teacher from Turbat, Balochistan. She participated in the Teaching Excellence and Achievements (TEA) program through which she visited the United States. The following is her story as an exchange participant in the United States where she experienced a completely new ...
The following is a heartfelt post by Zahra Andleeb, describing her journey as a Pakistani, Muslim participant in the United States for the TechWomen 2017. Zahra was a part of the first-ever cohort to represent Pakistan at Tech Women. It all started with the email, “Congratulations! You have been ...
