The dream for her children

“I want my children are teach little girls and boys in another country with Islam. If they are complete study then they are teach other Muslim people on the ways of Allah. I hope they are do.”

This is Auishi’s exact words when asked what her dreams are for her children. She never studied English formally, the schooling that she could afford when she was young was the bare minimum that she dared to beg for, and there were no English classes offered. She’s never had an easy life, growing up with basically a single mother and her younger sister, but she is resourceful and intelligent.

Now, she is almost a single mother of two herself. The situation in her country causes a lot of broken homes for various reasons that are complicated to explain. But, as a fierce mother of two, she is not angry or sad all the time. She maintains positivity and plays with her children and the children of her neighbors, the people she grew up with. She teaches the ones who can’t afford school, and their mothers (usually housekeepers) give her what little they can as payment.

For her children, she wants safety foremost. She grew up in a dangerous area, in an already dangerous country. It’s not just the danger of the body, but the dangers of the spirit and the mind that she wants to protect her children from. She knows she can’t provide the kind of home for her children where the cycle won’t repeat, and she can’t focus on them and work at the same time. Her audacious, and “unreasonable,” response was to send her children away to a good boarding school in the city, one she could not possibly afford.

She’s a fierce mother, she took action for the welfare of her children and then looked for how to make the landing. In another world, she would be a successful businessperson. In this world, she needs to figure out how to come up with USD 300 every month so her two children have a shot in this world. A sum that would take months of work for her.

Why doesn’t she look for a cheaper school? Why doesn’t she move? Does her children deserve to go to this better school? These are all a lot of reasonable questions.

The Pushpo Foundation exists so that we can raise and set an entire generation toward a positive cycle of success. For Aushi, the first step to ending the cycle was to not give up her right to a basic education, no matter her gender. She could not have done that without audaciously asking for help and getting it. Now there is an opportunity to send her children to a better school than she could have possibly dreamed of for herself, finally pulling her family out of a bad cycle. That’s where you come in, will you help her?

We are raising 3,000 USD for Yeashfi and Zarir’s boarding at Al Intifadah Institute for the rest of the year 2024.

Their boarding school provides safe housing and education for the two children while Aushi can focus on figuring out what to do for them and herself after this year.