The Taleemabad App is a product of the Orenda Project, which started out as a school in Bheyka Saidiyan, a slum in the capital city of Islamabad. The school was established to provide street children a safe haven and an education. As we taught in the school and travelled around the country we noticed that the problem was much larger.
We also noticed that across Pakistan, smartphones are spreading at a blistering speed. By 2020, according to GSMA, 51% of Pakistanis are expected to own smartphones. This will happen in the same country where 48% of children cannot read a simple sentence by the time they complete primary education in public schools.