Regions: Africa   Asia   Latin America


Name of Organization: The Development & Welfare Agency (DWAY)

Country: Pakistan

Project Title: "Reducing Child Labor through Awareness and Indigenous Mobilization (RECLAIM)"

Project Timeframe: 11 Months

Location of Project: Bannu district

Budget Amount: $9,772

NGO contact and website:
Mr. Imranullah Khan
150, Sector B, Phase I, Bannu township scheme
Bannu-28100, Pakistan,
Office: 92-928-633311
Email: dwaybannu@hotmail.com

Project's Primary Objective: Objective # 4 – Long-term sustainability of efforts in child labor and education

Description of Organization: DWAY is a non-governmental, non-profit organization working with a mission of ameliorating the conditions of the poor and disadvantaged group of people especially children and women, in both rural and urban areas and to promote social and human development, freeing everyone from the curse of ignorance and illiteracy, poverty, malnutrition, exploitation and deprivation and instilling in them new hopes and aspirations for better conditions of living. The organization is working in the areas of; primary education and human rights; reproductive health; and human and institutional development.

Description of Project funded by CIRCLE: Reducing Child Labor through Awareness and Indigenous Mobilization is a project consistent with DWAY's efforts to track out-of-school working children and to work with their parents, local community leaders, and local non-formal schools, so that children can be tracked and managed for their education through mobilization of human resources at the community level. The project will focus mobilization activities on the individual working child, their family and community and her/his employer.

After a detailed analysis of existing learning in the field, DWAY, in consultation with its partners at community levels, developed an idea to achieve its overall vision of a society free of the scourge of illiteracy and deprivation. The idea is focused primarily on increasing the enrollment of out-of-school working children and managing their retention and/or transition in the education system until completeness of their education program through reclaimation of local values.

Project Targets (Common Indicators):
Enrollment: 10 local private, public and non-formal schools offered 100 scholarships from grade 1-5 covering full tuition cost of child labor