Since Khairpur is a large, impoverished district, DIL began a second partnership in the Khairpur area with the Indus Resource Center (IRC) in 2001 to provide quality primary and middle school education to girls.

Khairpur, a land of meticulously lined date palms and vast cotton fields, is situated 450 km north of Karachi and shares a border with India to its east.  In the rural areas, only 53% of children attend primary school and only 48% of children older than 10 are literate.  The average literacy rate for males is 65% and only 25% for females.

In 2005, DIL and IRC set up the Beyond Middle School Program.  This program provides scholarships and educational assistance to middle school graduates who want to attend high school.  This year the first group of program graduates entered colleges

DIL-IRC SCHOOLS