Building  Fund

In the small towns and villages of Pakistan, there are often not schools available. If there is a government-run school in a community, it is typically not safe for Christians or girls to attend. Now, imagine that there is a school in a village that is safe and where the education is really good, but it costs much more than a typical family could ever afford. Most Pakistani families are just barely scraping by to provide basic needs and food for their families, and paying for an education for their children is an unreachable luxury.

 

The Presbyterian Education Board (PEB) operates 26 schools in six towns and villages and two cities. The Boarding houses at four of these schools allow students from other villages to attend. While this may not be very many yet, PEB is present in places where there are very few other options.

 

The problem that PEB faces, however, is what to charge students to attend these schools. The team at PEB knows that even the few most financially stable families in the villages cannot afford to pay what it actually costs for PEB to educate their child. So, they charge much less than the actual cost. PEB provides an education to any child, even if they cannot afford it. For some families, even that small, discounted tuition rate is still too much. PEB allows these families in extreme poverty to pay even less, with the hope to cover the educational costs with scholarship sponsors' gifts.

 

This means that PEB relies heavily on outside donations to cover the costs to operate every school. If the costs are not covered, programs are cancelled, teachers’ salaries don’t increase with inflation, they are not able to buy the equipment they need for science labs, computer labs or classrooms, and, worst of all, they cannot admit any more children because they can’t afford to do so.​​

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