Haroon Yasin
The Idea
Organization
Taleemabad
Pakistan’s literacy rate is 59%, the worst in the region. Public schools—struggling with large class sizes and too few teachers—are overburdened and can't meet kids' learning needs.
About Haroon
By the age of 18, Haroon had opened and was running schools in slums for poor or homeless children in Islamabad. As a teacher he saw over and over again that kids were not learning, often because lessons were not in their local language and teaching was dry and static. After a degree from Georgetown in Economics, he co-founded Orenda to create a new way of learning.
