Punjab, Pakistan · The Cholistan Desert
It began in the spring of 2013 with twelve children from eight desert villages. Those children went on to university, and this year the first of them finished his studies and went home.
2015 · Cholistan Desert
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Change
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Children
On their first day out of the desert the children did not know their birthdays and had never seen a toothbrush. Seven years later three of them entered one of Lahore's leading universities, and one was elected student president of a school of nine hundred.
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Family
A thousand bricks a day earn about seven dollars. The debt never shrinks, and the children tread clay instead of going to school. In August 2020 the first family paid off its debt and left the kiln: eight people began a new life in a home of their own.
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Village
A tent colony beside the highway on the edge of Lahore. In 2014 a small chapel and a classroom went up here, and one by one the tents turned into brick houses. Today some seventy children study in the upstairs classrooms, and in the evenings adults who never learned to read come to learn their letters.
Our story
2012
Meeting the children of the Cholistan Desert
November 2012
2013
Twelve children come to live with us
March 2013
2020
The first family leaves the brick kiln
August 2020
2020
Three children from the desert enter university
September 2020
2026
The first of them goes home to the desert
February 2026
My vision is to be with the children, and through them to change their villages.
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