The first phase of the project is the workshop itself. A group of sixteen students from Lead High School - a small institution that caters to an underserved area of Nazimabad No. 4 - have been selected for the workshop. Through stimulating discussion-based sessions, we hope to develop critical thinking skills in them so they begin to ask the whats, the whys, and the hows of the problems they see around them and try to find solutions to these problems.
The workshop aims to lead participants towards the idea that good decisions cannot be made and sustainable solutions cannot be made without a lot of knowledge and information. Libraries can be great resources for such information, especially in a community where not every one has access to facilities such as the internet, and so participants will practically utilize the tools they have acquired in the workshop to restore Sehba Akthar Library, a defunct public library close to Lead High School. This is phase two of our pilot project.