School Outreach Tour: Azeemi Public School

The Citizens Archive of Pakistan's School Outreach Tour travelled to Surjani Town in Karachi where its imagination stations were set up at Azeemi Public School. Over two hundred children attended the interactive workshops.

FOUR FACES OF KARACHI

CELEBRATING PAKISTAN: The Citizens Archive of Pakistan in collaboration with Koel Gallery held an exhibition of Lutfullah Khan's vintage photographs of Karachi in the 1950's- CAP also showcased its Oral History Project Clips.








The four day Exhibit attracted hundreds of people especially students.



Watching Oral History Clips from CAP's visual library







CAP Volunteers selling memorabilia at the event

CAP and The Quaid-e-Azam's Mazaar

Independence Day Mela!

August 14, 2009

Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture

Raana signs on a new name for the Oral History Project interviews

Sania, in her fantastic Quaid T-shirt, getting the word out about CAP

A BIG "thank you" to all our interns and volunteers!

Ajay Pinjani

Sumera Bilgrami

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Noor Mahamadi

Maya Asad

Fatima Zaidi

Sanam Maher

Nisha Pinjani

Tarab Abedi

Batul Tunio

Fazeelat Aslam

Mariam Bilgrami

Asad Faruqi

Sameed Hussain

Amean J

Raana Kazmi

Tooba Masood

Fawaz Motiwala

Naveed Waghani

Bilal Subzwari

Sania Faruqi

Shabbir Terrai

Kamran (a.k.a. Kam-Kam)

Ayesha Tariq

Rizwan Saeed (Kifayat) 

Mehreen Obaid (Towellers Ltd)

Eefa Khalid (for designing the AMAZING T-shirts)

Photos by Asad Faruqi and Ahmed Shajee Aijazi

Government Girls Secondary School - PNT Colony

School Outreach Tour

17th and 18th August, 2009

Sharmeen, Fatima and Nisha setting up the darris and cleaning the classrooms

Historical photographs made 3D!

"How do you see Pakistan today?" - Postcards to Pakistan

The kids are seated for the puppet show

Bilal, backstage

Editor's Choice

This 14th August, our Oral History Project film clips were on the Dawn website for three days. Many thanks to Huma Yusuf and Eefa Khalid.

Here is what Dawn had to say about one of our clips:

Tales of the nation

The history of a nation as young as Pakistan is necessarily a living history. After all, the generation that witnessed Partition and the subsequent events that shaped the nation is still with us. Their memories and stories comprise the most vital account of how this country came to be what it is today.

In recognition of this fact, Dawn.com presents oral histories of Pakistan’s first citizens as documented by the Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP), a non-profit educational institution and heritage centre.

In this audio slideshow, Abeeda Abidi describes how Pakistani women from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds came together to defend their new nation by joining the Pakistan National Women's Guard.

Contact information

Intern or volunteer at CAP: 

Email  | citizensarchive@gmail.com

Phone | 0332-3392004 or 0332-2541272

Learn more about us: 

Website | www.citizensarchive.org

Oral History Project film clips| www.youtube.com/CitizensArchive

Read the Blog | www.citizensarchiveofpakistan.blogspot.com

Keep up with us: 

Twitter | citizensarchive

Facebook | Cap Coordinator or www.facebook.com/citizensarchive

Nominate someone for an Oral History Project interview: 

Email or call us. Please provide the nominees name, age and contact information

Digitize archival material (old photographs, newspapers etc): 

Email or call us

School Outreach Tour - Azeemi Public School

Azeemi Public School: 11th August, 2009

Suntra Magazine (Kifayat Publishers) has partnered with The Citizens Archive of Pakistan for our School Outreach Tours - all students and teachers will receive a free Suntra magazine jam-packed with articles, stories, games, quizzes, resources for students and teachers

A BIG thank-you to everyone who helped make this an amazing day: 

Ajay Pinjani

Sumera Bilgrami

Mariam Bilgrami

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Adil Ashraf

Naveed Waghani

Talal Khan

Rizwan Saeed

Kifayat Publishers

Nisha Pinjani

Bilal Subzwari

Fawaz Motiwala

Maya Asad

Fatima Zaidi

Tabinda Siddiqi

Asad Faruqi

Sania Faruqi

Tarab Abidi

Raana Kazmi

Moosa

Sanam Maher

Fazeelat Aslam

Kamran (Kam-Kam)

Teachers Development Center

Sindh Education Foundation

Mahinaz Mahmood

Wali Shah

Fatima Naqvi

Nadir Siddiqui

Shehrezad Maher

Abbas Hussain

Teachers Resource Center

Noor Mahamadi

Hiba Mahamadi

Swaleha Alam Shahzada

Shala Agha

Minal Rahimtoola

Ajeet Ahuja

Abeeda Abidi

Amna Jatoi

Mel Lawrence

Museum of London

All photographs by Sanam Maher

This poster was designed by Shehrezad Maher