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Powering the Movement: A Global Citizen Podcast - 4: How Video Games Are Helping Kids Stay in School in Pakistan

4: How Video Games Are Helping Kids Stay in School in Pakistan

Powering the Movement: A Global Citizen Podcast

12/08/19 • 14 min

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Growing up in Pakistan, Haroon Yasin, 27, felt like a stranger in classrooms. And in Islamabad’s slums, where inequality and poverty are widespread, he saw children who feel the same way today. So he founded Orenda, a company that takes the national curriculum and converts it into an engaging app called Taleemabad, bringing education — a basic human right — to 130,000 kids who might not have traditional opportunities to learn.

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12/08/19 • 14 min

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