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YES Alum Shines with #EnglishWeek Project in Pakistan

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YES Exchange alum Moiz Rehan is helping young students in Pakistan’s rural area of Pallandri learn English. Moiz is a member alum of the Workshop for Youth Leaders in Teaching English, an enhancement opportunity offered to select students and is sponsored by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

YES Exchange alum Moiz Rehan is helping young students in Pakistan's rural area of Pallandri a small town in the province of Kashmir learn English. Moiz, who studied in the US and lived with an American host family as a part of the YES program in the 2012-2013 academic year, is also a member alum of the Workshop for Youth Leaders in Teaching English (WYLTE), an enhancement opportunity offered to select students and is sponsored by the US Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Moiz's project in Pallandri, a series of workshops for 9th and 10th grade students, focused on building confidence as well as developing strategies to self-study the English language. His workshop is part of a broader alumni effort to use skills acquired at the WYLTE conference.

"These students are geographically cut off from the rest of the 'developed' Pakistan," says Moiz. "They had neither the exposure nor the confidence to speak, write, read, and practice fluency in English language. Through #EnglishWeek, these students learned the necessary tools to become self-independent in acquiring not just learning fundamental and some advanced skills of English language."

#EnglishWeek targeted 130 students and, because of the design of the program, will have significant indirect beneficiaries; namely the students' families and community members.

"During the Workshops, the students were encouraged to become independent learners of English language as well as leaders in teaching and disseminating their learned knowledge in their communities," says Moiz. "The ripple-effect created will be long-lasting and will benefit a major demographic of the young population of Pallandri.

This project invited English teachers and other WYLTE Alumni and YES students to join the conversation on effective English language teaching by using the #EnglishWeek hashtag on Twitter and received an extremely positive response on all social media.

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