By: Shehneela Mazhar Shawana Shah, our IVLP Alumni 2017, is working as a Program Manager at Da Hawwa Lur, a non-profit organization, working for the rights and protection of women, girls, and transgender persons in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. She has recently organized a three days Master Training for Youth ...
From the beautiful city of mountains and scenic beauty Muzaffarabad, Tanveer Ahmed, an English Works 2019 alumnus, led a development project with mission to transform lives through language. Through the Alumni Small Grant (ASG) program, he initiated the remarkable project “English Enhancement Program”. The project aimed to improve the English ...
“It is great to be here with a diverse group of participants for this two-week intensive learning program funded through the Pakistan-U.S. Alumni Network – PUAN and supported by U.S. Mission in Pakistan”, shared Linnette Franco, Assistant Cultural Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy Islamabad while speaking on the occasion of virtual ...
Ali Abid has been a journalist with Pakistan’s different English newspapers for the last 20 years. Therefore, the first interaction of this Sheikhupura-based career journalist on Twitter, his blog, and even Youtube was hard to miss. Earlier, his brush with digital technology was only to mail his news stories to ...
Technology has removed barriers to the spread of information, allowing anyone to share their thoughts and experiences with a wide audience. What impact does this have in store for the world of journalism and “gate keeping” with increased internet clicktivism? Citizen journalism offers the advantage of empowering local ...
Dania Hassan sets an inspiration for youth in the global community as a young leader and activist working to raise the quality of education throughout Pakistan. Her ongoing work has granted her the Emerging Young Leaders Award by the U.S Department of State – awarded to ten outstanding young ...
The rapid pace of technological and digital change is giving rise to new challenges, opportunities and some compelling questions. To answer these questions and convert the challenges into future opportunities; industry leaders, tech innovators, researchers, academia, decision-makers and investors put their heads together during Fostering Innovation Summit (FIS) 2018. Fulbright ...
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 ...
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 ...
Technological innovations and digital evolutions are transforming the world as we know it. It is now more than evident that the future economy will demand a generation of professionals which is ready to tackle novel and unprecedented issues. Keeping this in mind, there is growing need to swiftly shift towards ...
