Bright Home
Our partner, Amplifying Voices Pakistan is working with a Bagri community in a village near Sakkar Rohi, to create new opportunies for women and young people. Bright Home is a project that integrates community-centred media with vocational skills classes and other off-air activities.
Going live on local FM radio, woman and girls from the Roshan Ghar project are creating new opportunities and opening new doors for rural listeners near Sargodha.
Amplifying Voices Pakistan promotes change at a pace that allows time for long-held cultural norms to adapt. Through Bright Home groups, they’re finding a care-filled approach to amplifying voices is paying dividends for positive change.
Taking part in a “Bright Home” group helped six sisters to overcome their rage at having “nothing to lose”, finding peace and boldness to take risks to improve their future, inspiring others to come alongside.
Bright Home helps Pakistani women create new opportunities. We hear how Amplifying Voices navigates challenging cultural barriers and norms, and discusses things no-one talks about.
This week, women from a minority community in Punjab started a series of workshops teaching sewing skills to other women and girls. At the end of the first day, participants…
In a village in Pakistan, we recently heard this story that highlights the importance of iterative listening when engaging with communities. And after listening to come back and listen again …