Family Educational Services Foundation

Project No: I04

Project Managers:
Richard and Victoria (Heidi) Geary, Maria and Francis Doherty

Contact Info:
info@fesf.org.pk
www.fesf.org.pk

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Family Educational Services Foundation

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Project Managers: Richard and Victoria (Heidi) Geary, Maria and Francis Doherty

The head office of Family Educational Services Foundation(FESF) is in Karachi.

Deaf Reach Schools and Deaf Reach Training Centers, which currently operate in Karachi, Lahore, Hyderabad and Sukkur, provide a place of excellence for the deaf to develop their full potential and increase their opportunities for success. FESF courses are designed to meet the academic and vocational needs of the deaf community, with particular emphasis on English and IT training, as well as communication skills, sign language and social skills. Through a Job Placement Program, graduates are able to obtain gainful employment whereby they can help to support their families and be self-sufficient. Read more

FESF's Eduserve program is designed to strengthen the local educational infrastructure by training teachers, administrators, and parents. Other FESF activities include music therapy for mentally and physically handicapped children, organizing activities for orphaned and homeless children, educational seminars for parents and teachers, dissemination of educational materials and teaching aids. Read more

FESF also carries on an extensive Community Services Program. Additionally, FESF conducted teacher training courses in the earthquake zones after the deadly earthquake of October 2005.

Real Life Story — Silence No Longer a Barrier —Through a hand up, determination and persistence, Ali is now one of the sole deaf computer teachers in Karachi... Read full story.

Real Life Story — IT Skills Empowering Pakistani Women—Language skills and IT development has made a real impact in the lives of deaf women.... Read full story.

Karachi, Pakistan


Main responsibles of Deaf Reach (L - R:) Ali Noonari, Heidi and Richard Geary.

Heidi Geary assists 2 teachers at a workshop in Karachi entitled, "Motivating Children to Learn."

Benefit Concert

Teacher Training

Pakistan’s Deaf

A video View of Pakistan’s Deaf

Deaf Reach Schools

Deaf Reach Schools operate in Karachi, Lahore and Hyderabad as a morning school for deaf children from KG - Grade 8.This program caters to the education of children, ages 4–15, from poor areas of town, who have had no prior educational opportunity.

Deaf Reach Academic Training

The basis of educating a deaf person begins with their learning to communicate. Deaf children in particular may not have had any training whatsoever when it comes to sign language, not even being able to communicate with their parents. Basically all sign language originates as a grassroots development in a given community, but in cultures where the deaf are regarded as “handicapped”, it is all too easy for them to be totally shut out of the hearing world with no stimulus whatsoever presented to them.

Deaf Reach Training Centers

The Deaf Reach Training Centers in Karachi, Lahore, Hyderabad and Sukkur provide quality supplemental education for deaf children and young adults.

Lahore Deaf Reach Training Center

Deaf Reach addresses the need for vocational training for the hearing impaired. Few schools besides Family Educational Services Foundation exist to meet the special needs of the deaf community and there is little or no availability of vocational training for them. The goal of the Lahore Center is to improve skills sufficiently enough to give the deaf a better prospect of employment and becoming self supporting.

Creation of Pakistan Sign Language Lexicon

The native language of any deaf community is their signed language. Work in underway in the creation of a Pakistani Sign Language digital lexicon.

Women’s Empowerment

Vocational training can lift a woman out a cycle of poverty,  as well as establish her worth and dignity, and thus we concentrate on female education in all our academic, computer literacy and vocational training programs.

Job Placement Program

Another of the goals of Deaf Reach is to provide those students it serves with opportunities for employment once they graduate from the institute, to help them fulfill their roles as contributing members of society.

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurants operated by deaf staff

Family Educational Services Foundation, in cooperation with national franchise owners of KFC restaurants, has pioneered a new and exciting frontier in Pakistan. Together they have created branch restaurants that are run 100% by the hearing impaired. All staff members, with the exception of the shift manager, are deaf.

Eduserve: Teacher Training Program

The mandate of our Eduserve Training Program is to strengthen the educational infrastructure through training teachers, administrators, parents and youth.

Foreign aid

Newspaper reprint: The News - KolachiIn the heart of Karachi some passionate foreigners are working alongside the locals, changing lives of the many underprivileged among us. The Family Education Service Foundation model of bringing about a positive change in our society is a truly surprising one.

Massive Pakistan Flooding

Residents trapped by heavy floods are evacuated by a Pakistan army helicopter in Sanawan near Multan in central Pakistan yesterday. Flood survivors loaded down with possessions fled a growing deluge in Pakistan's most populous province as the government came under renewed criticism for its response to the worst monsoon rains in decades.

Community Services

FESF conducts orphan visitation programs and arranges donations of material needs to various institutions for disadvantaged children. We work with children who need extra loving care and encouragement in their lives.

Special Benefit Concerts for Special Children

Our resident show troupe Heart Beat! performs benefit musical programs for thousands of children in schools, orphanages, hospitals and centers for the handicapped.

Earthquake Relief

Teacher Training Courses. Dissemination of children’s educational material. Donation of warm clothes to hundreds of children and women. Providing of Children’s Activity Programs and Youth Counseling: teams worked extensively in 2 of the main camps.

Annual Reports

FESF annual reports archive.