Under the Starry Nights: Low-cost Education for Thousands of Children in Slums

Children in Slums Deserve Education
Name your own school at $1 per child

Our Vision

“Enable children in the slums of the world get sustainable and high-quality of education at low cost while creating a strong partnership with the communities involved.” Tools: We have developed a model that is rapidly scalable and provides high-quality of education at a very low cost. Success: We have applied this model in the slums since 2014 with > 60,000 enrollments who successfully advanced into the school system in Bangladesh.
Send a child in a slum to school at the low cost of $1/month using a proven model by DoPeace we have put more than 10,000 children each year in schools in the slums of Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and U.S.

Could you be an advocate for the children in slums?

These beautiful small children need to be in schools, and not on the streets. Slum dwellers are caught up in a cycle of poverty, for decades. Times have changed, and the world has more resources, ingenuity, and technology to make changes. It is upon us to educate these children and level the playing field rigged against them. We have an opportunity for advocacy for the children in the slums of the world.

Global Programs

Pakistan

This Ramadan, give the gift of education to the poorest of the poor children in Pakistan. Donate $25 to educate 25 children per month. Call 267-679-2170 or visit DoPeace.org. DoPeace brings children under 5 years of age to the preschool. We put 12,000 poor children in the school system every year. The cost of sponsorship for one learning center is $2520 per year. Go to DoPeace.org or call 267-679-2170 for the tax-free donation. Educate the poor children to build the declining literacy rate in Pakistan.

USA

We have opened Sturgis DoPeace Learning Center in the inner city in Philadelphia. Every child must be directed to achieve Higher Education. Children must be guided from an early age. They should be tutored all along

We have seen children in the disadvantaged population facing hopelessness. Communities have seen poverty as a way of life for generations. Parents may not see education as a priority when the money is tight. Social norms may discourage from the long-term investment in education.

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Current Crisis

DoPeace.org Ramps Up the distribution of food, and is bracing to set up our Learning Centers for Myanmar Refugees children.

There are some 240,000 children and food and shelter are the priorities. Please donate so we will be able to save the children.

Please be generous and help us to provide food urgently needed. Please go the link dopeace.org/donate and donate. Please fulfill your responsibility that the children are asking for. Please do not ignore this. Do it now!

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Under the Starry Nights: Low-cost Education for Thousands of
Children in Slums

Dr. Shahid Ahmed has devised a very low-cost model to educate the poor and applied that to tens of thousands of children in the slums of Bangladesh. This book tells the gripping story of his five-year struggle of working with the slum communities to form an educational system. He describes the uphill battle of child labor, early marriage, and resistance to education that frustrated his mission. His trials and tribulations, success and failures, and moments of hope and despair dig deep into roots of the problems. An estimated one billion people are living in urban slums, and the number is growing. More than 150 million little children under the age of 5 who will never go to school in their lives are living there.

These children will mostly grow up uneducated, the social and economic consequences of which are devastating. The lack of education engenders a cycle of poverty that is very hard to break. Education is a way out of these persistent slums. With the mission to alleviate poverty, the book describes a startling system of education that emerged, costing one dollar per child per month. This system has so far resulted in about 50,000 child-year of schooling. Will this model enable educating the masses of the poor to eradicate poverty?

The book provides a tantalizing hope that will grab your attention. Dr. Shahid Ahmed is President of PITC Institute in Wyncote, Pennsylvania for the last 18 years. He founded the nonprofit, DoPeace, in 2014. He has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa; and an MBA from The Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Our Work In Numbers

Enrolments in slums
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Per student per month
US $ 1
Student Retention
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Sponsorship per school
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Books

Wisdom and Habits of High Performing Individuals

Hardcover -
January 19, 2022

Making Sense: Bold Ideas for Humanity’s Survival Through Education

Paperback -
January 5, 2021

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