Baltistan Today Features Al Mehdi Falahi Trust's Rural Education Push
April 10, 20261 min read
Regional news outlet Baltistan Today published a feature on the trust's scholarship work and the measurable shift it's producing in local college enrollment figures.
Regional outlet Baltistan Today this week ran a multi-page feature on Al Mehdi Falahi Trust's education programme, highlighting the measurable shift in rural college enrollment the trust's scholarship pipeline has helped produce over the last four academic years.
Reporter Samina Bano visited Kondus, Khaplu, and Skardu over three days and interviewed current scholarship recipients, trust coordinators, and two regional education officials. The resulting article presents the trust's work as a small but replicable model for privately-funded education in remote Pakistani districts.
Key points from the feature
The piece notes that in Kondus specifically, the share of Matric graduates moving on to FSc has risen sharply since the trust's scholarships began running at scale in 2020, an increase the article attributes, cautiously, to the combination of funding and active mentoring the trust provides alongside each award.
The feature also profiles the Amanah Accounts system, describing it as "an unusually rigorous transparency practice for an organisation of this size." That framing resonates with how the trust likes to describe itself: small, boring, and trustworthy.
We're grateful to the Baltistan Today team for their careful reporting and will post a link to the full article once it's available in their online archive.