EducationJoshua Schools
Free education for every child
Three active schools, two more opening, 500+ children — and not one of them pays a rupee. Tuition, books, stationery, uniform and a meal, all free.
Read morePresident & Chairman · Woerden Welfare School System
Transforming lives with faith and action.
The faith-based NGO I chair, working across Punjab — teaching children who cannot pay, installing water that costs nothing, and freeing families from a debt the law abolished in 1992.
What we stand for
Faith is a verb here.
WWSSPAK is a faith-based NGO working through education, empowerment and community support. Every programme is built on the conviction that transformation happens when belief turns into something you can actually measure — a classroom that is full, a tap that runs clean, a family that walks out of a kiln.
We are not a grant-dependent organisation by design. The sister company I also run, Woerden Enterprise, operates four businesses, and their proceeds underwrite this work. It means a school does not close because a funding round did not come through.
Our head office is in Youhanabad, Lahore. The schools reach from there to Rahim Yar Khan in the south, out to Khanewal and Kasur.
5,000+
Lives transformed
Across every welfare programme
1,200+
Families supported
Education, relief and rehabilitation
50+
Water facilities
Free drinking water points installed
300+
Laptops donated
To students bridging the digital divide
Programmes
Initiatives that restore dignity.
Each programme is designed against a real need — and each is rooted in a Biblical foundation.
Education
Health & WaterClean Water
Free drinking water plants
Free drinking water facilities installed in communities that have none — because in Pakistan the tap is not a safe default, and the alternative is disease.
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Human RightsFreedom from Brick Kilns
Ending bonded labour
Families are trapped in Pakistan’s brick kilns by a debt that was designed never to be repaid. We pay it off, get them out, and put their children in school.
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OpportunityScholarships & Skills
Laptops, degrees and careers
Getting a bright student through school is only half the job. Scholarships, laptops, career counselling and small-enterprise support carry them the rest of the way.
Read moreBikes Distribution
Removing the transport barrier that keeps students and workers from turning up at all.
Flood Relief & Food Packages
Rapid relief and rehabilitation for communities hit by disaster.
Leadership & Fellowship
Building ethical community leaders for change that outlasts a single programme.
Joshua School System
Five campuses across Punjab.
Three teaching today, two opening. Every one of them free.
- 01
Joshua Primary School
ActiveKhalique Nagar, 22-Km Ferozepur Road, Youhanabad, Lahore
The flagship campus. Play group to primary, free books, stationery, uniforms and meals. Registered with the School Education Department, Government of the Punjab.
- 02
Joshua Middle School
ActiveChak No 136/P, Rahim Yar Khan
Free Grade 6–8 education for students in an underserved district of southern Punjab.
- 03
Joshua School — Kahna Nau
ActiveAzadtown, Asil Suwa, Post Office Kahna Nau, Lahore
Serving the Azadtown and Asil Suwa communities on Lahore’s peri-urban edge.
- 04
Joshua School — Mian Channu
OpeningChak No 133 Amart Nagar, Tehsil Mian Channu, District Khanewal
Extending free education into Khanewal district.
- 05
Joshua School — Kasur
OpeningVillage Ding-Shah, District Kasur
Serving a rural community with the same commitment that defines every Joshua School.
The need
Why any of this is necessary.
Independent figures, each linked to its source. They are the argument for the work.
Education
25.1 million
children aged 5–16 are out of school in Pakistan — 35% of that age group, the second-highest number in the world.
UNICEF Pakistan9.7 million
of those out-of-school children are in Punjab alone — the largest number of any province.
UNICEF Pakistan52.8%
female literacy in Pakistan, against 68% for men — the gap our girls’ schooling is built to close.
PSLM / Economic Survey 2024–25Water
~47%
of Pakistanis have access to safe drinking water. The UN puts it plainly: it is unavailable to nearly half the country.
UN in Pakistan267 of 433
water samples tested across 29 Pakistani cities came back unsafe — 62%. The leading cause is bacteriological, then arsenic.
PCRWR, Drinking Water Quality in Pakistan50–60 million
people on the Indus Plain draw groundwater likely to exceed the WHO arsenic limit — eastern Punjab, including Lahore, is worst affected.
Podgorski et al., Science Advances (2017)~27,000
children die every year in Pakistan from diarrhoeal disease linked to unsafe water.
National Library of MedicineBonded labour
~2.35 million
people live in modern slavery in Pakistan — the fourth-highest absolute number in the world.
Global Slavery Index 2023, Walk Free1 million+
men, women and children work in roughly 10,000 brick kilns in Punjab alone.
ILO / APPG for Pakistani Minorities (2024)1992
the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act outlawed bondage and extinguished every peshgi debt. Three decades on, the kilns are still full.
Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1992Support the work
Sponsor a child. Fund a well. Free a family.
Donations, volunteering, teaching, or a corporate partnership — every one of them turns into something specific here.