Women & girls
National platforms often overlook rural women and girls. WANG works from Ahmed Abad Wang, District Lasbela, Balochistan, where unreliable connectivity, distance from urban centres, and language barriers amplify the gender digital divide. This page explains how WANG’s field model combines WIRE (women’s rural enterprise), WALI lab training, scholarships, solar-powered learning, and climate-resilient housing — and why international partners recognize that work.
Context
Many Pakistani women still face barriers to regular, meaningful internet use — especially in provinces where infrastructure and safe public access lag cities. In Balochistan’s rural districts, girls’ education and women’s digital inclusion are tightly linked to household economics, security, and mobility.
Large-scale digital-skilling platforms often default to English and assumed home connectivity. WANG’s answer is different: Urdu-first explanation, in-person cohorts at WALI, and mentors who live in the same communities as learners.
WANG treats girls’ education and women’s livelihoods as one system — scholarships, re-enrolment support, safe learning spaces, and later pathways into Urdu AI and enterprise skills so families see a continuum, not a one-off workshop.
Programs
WIRE pairs women’s traditional economic roles with digital tools: mobile literacy, online visibility for small producers, safer communication practices, and structured mentorship. Read the public landing: WIRE overview and explore the full story on walipak.com.
The WALI innovation lab hosts batches where first-time learners — many of them young women — can practice computing without relying on home broadband. Solar backup and community scheduling reduce dropout when the grid fails.
Keeping girls in school is a precondition for later tech fluency. WANG’s Lasbela scholarship and re-enrolment work (documented across impact metrics and journal posts) sits upstream of every advanced skills program.
Field journal
Recognition
WANG’s integrated work on climate resilience, community leadership, and gender inclusion earned Organization category recognition at the CAREC Gender Climate Awards 2024. That validation sits alongside partner recognition from Google.org / AVPN on AI literacy and coverage of rural innovation. See Awards & recognition and the CAREC journal article.
Urdu AI
As women-led enterprises adopt messaging, short video, and lightweight automation, AI literacy in plain Urdu becomes practical, not abstract. Urdu AI is the national public platform; WANG builds the community trust that helps skeptical households take the first step.
Next step
Donors and corporate partners can underwrite discrete outcomes: a WIRE training round, a girls’ scholarship tranche, or solar maintenance for the lab. WANG publishes aggregate impact on Impact and detailed initiative context on Initiatives.