DIL Community Schools

DIL school environments are places where students can learn from trained teachers with appropriate and adequate resources. With well-ventilated classrooms, secure boundary walls, and private latrine facilities, all DIL schools meet the cultural and practical standards that best support students’ physical, social, and emotional well-being.

DIL is committed to providing a girl-friendly education, with a 68% female student enrollment rate and women comprising 95% of school staff. DIL’s child-centered approach lays emphasis on gender equality. Girls are encouraged to take the lead in the classroom, co-curricular activities, and project-based activities. We also provide need-based scholarships for students seeking higher education opportunities.

Our model rests on community support. After 27 years, we’ve earned a high degree of trust, enabling us to encourage female enrollment, furnish access to EdTech (educational technology), and build an ethos of community ownership.

Educating Through Government School Adoption

DIL continues to liaise with Pakistan’s Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) as we adopt government schools in Punjab, Sindh, and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT). Half of our current network is composed of government-adopted schools, and in 2022 we adopted enough government schools to double our total student enrollment.

Elevating the quality of government schooling has entailed the following:

• Capacity-building among instructors in Early Childhood Education (ECE), primary grade education, and secondary education that is moored in a student-centered pedagogy

• Adopting schools in Sindh with the Sindh Education Foundation (SEF), who are providing per-child subsidies for nearly 10,000 students

• Deploying both our signature EdTech program, Technology Enabled Academic Learning (TEAL), and our Read to Grow, Read to Know (RGRK) program in select schools.