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Pakistan: Sight and sound

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Boosting women's incomes in Pakistan

The UK government has funded the Kashf Foundation to give women in Pakistan loans for their small businesses. In this video, the founder of the organisation and a local branch manager talk about how the loans help their clients to work as rickshaw drivers and fruit and vegetable sellers.

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Putting Pakistan's children at the centre of education

In an area of Pakistan where almost half the children don't attend school, the UK government is funding a new approach to teaching. In this video, a teacher and a mother explain how pupils are learning more effectively through lessons that are fun and engaging instead of through the old system of learning by rote.

 

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