Zubair : wants to join Pak Army

Zubair is an attentive student in class

Zubair was born in a small village in Pakistan where his father, Gul Rehman Khan, earned his living by collecting scrap material & selling it to recyclers. To ease his father’s burden, Zubair helped his father by carrying the scrap material to the market instead of spend his days in a classroom like children of his age do and should. When Zubair was ten, his family migrated from their home village to the city of Rawalpindi where he was enrolled as a student at a seminary within a mosque where he spent his days dreaming of going to school. One day, Zubair was collecting scrap on the street when he saw children from his own neighbourhood going to a Zindagi Trust School located at their doorstep. He became anxious to join the school with his friends and neighbours and requested his father to let him study in this school which provided free education till Matriculation. Gul Rehman had studied till the 4th grade and realized the importance of education in transforming the future of his children. He attended a community literacy awareness session at the school on the right to education and the very next day enrolled Zubair and his four siblings into Zindagi Trust's Tehmaspabad – Rawalpindi school. In the very first term Zubair proved himself to be a quick learner and caught up with the syllabus in a short span of time. He was always eager to demonstrate his love for school and commitment to education to his teachers. Despite there being no electricity in his slum dwellings, he regularly completed his assignments under a teashop street-light nearby. He finished the accelerated primary education programme with an A+ grade and, with the support of Zindagi Trust's donors like yourself, he has continued this journey of education by enrolling in class 6 in a private secondary school - Al-Huda Education System School in Rawalpindi. He reported excitedly to our academic coordinator that he got the 2nd position in the 2nd term examination and will appear in the annual examination this month where he is also hopeful of a good performance. Zubair is keen to have his character developed by education through the coming years and aims to join the Pakistan Army as a soldier. Students like Zubair who show incredible academic progress are role models and a source of pride for Zindagi Trust. http://www.zindagitrust.org/success-stories-zubair.php