Our Approach
In rural Sindh, the barriers are financial, cultural, and social. All at once.
EBB starts from the boundaries girls actually live within, and designs around them.
People in This Story
Knowledge Seekers
The girls and women EBB supports – we call them ‘Knowledge Seekers’. Because we don’t limit our support to those who are in school, but whoever seeks to learn.
Devotees
Locally recruited female educators and mentors, coming from the same communities and understand the boundaries Knowledge Seekers live within.
Knowledge Points
Small community learning hubs, set up in neighbors’ homes as a safe space for knowledge seekers to come and study.
What We Do
EBB works on two fronts. They’re designed to reinforce each other.
Education Support
Helping Knowledge Seekers continue their studies through the curriculum, past their exams, and into the next grade. Delivered at home or nearby, by Devotees who know the community.
Business Support
For girls who want to build something of their own. A one-time in-kind startup grant, practical training, and an advisor who’s done it herself.
This is what it looks like.
A knowledge seeker, aged 25, married, two kids, and not allowed to leave the house. When EBB team visited her village, she told us that she still wanted to study.
We had a long conversation. Finally, her family said yes, as long as she stayed home. So that’s what we did. A Devotee came to her. We paid for her exams. She passed. Grade A.
That was the beginning. Ready to support a girl like her?
