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Girls' School in Pakistan
Georg Ludwig Rexroth School for Girls
The focus of our support in recent years has been the school built in 1993 in Orangi, a slum area of Karachi, where some 1,000 pupils — girls only from the fifth year onward — are taught to secondary-school level. The school is funded chiefly by the Georg Ludwig Rexroth Foundation. In its early years it was operated alongside a commercial sewing workshop in order to help cover the costs. The legal framework is provided by the Georg Ludwig Rexroth Charitable Trust in Karachi.
The girls' school physics laboratory
The school, with its nursery and pre-school, has since been extended up to the tenth year. Today around 1,000 girls are taught up to secondary-school level. The school is officially recognised and offers a high standard of education. The sewing workshop has been closed for want of space. We also offer the following training courses, some of them in the evening: sewing, tailoring, art, crafts, computing and literacy.
It has been of particular importance to the success of the project that we secured the services of Daud Ansari, the former commercial director of Siemens Pakistan, as a highly qualified manager for the Rexroth Foundation.
Director — Daud Ansari
(† 22 July 2022)
Since its founding, the foundation has additionally provided the following substantial support:
- Covering staff costs and supplying medicines for the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center
- Funding housing for former leprosy patients
- Supporting a shoemaking workshop for men, a leatherworking workshop for young people and a training workshop for electricians and carpenters
- Installing drinking-water tanks for war refugees in Orangi
- Covering the salaries of teachers at the Tatarko School in Mangophir, named after our late director Eugen Tatarko
- Supporting a kindergarten in Mangophir
Total funding to date amounted to EUR 2.04 million.
Overview
Projects of the Rexroth Foundation
