The story behind the program, who it serves, and how each lesson is designed.
Tareeqa started as a free science tutoring effort for deaf and hard-of-hearing students in Gujranwala. As founder and lead tutor, I partnered directly with a deaf school — a special-education unit — so the students we teach are genuinely deaf and hard-of-hearing, not a general classroom. That partnership is the foundation: it ensures the program is built around real needs, not assumptions.
Every lesson is designed to be visual and hands-on. Instead of lectures, students work with simple chemistry experiments and planting activities that teach through direct observation.
We refuse to simply give students the answers. Problems are set so a small group has to reason together, so understanding is actually built rather than memorized.
Students work in small groups on set problems, discussing and testing ideas with each other until they arrive at understanding themselves.
Beyond teaching directly, I recruit and direct other tutors so Tareeqa runs as a coordinated team rather than one person's effort. This lets the program hold a fixed, free weekly schedule — a consistent commitment that lets the number of students we reach grow honestly over time, rather than through one-off events.
Rather than leaning on headcount alone, each student's grades are logged before and after a term, and that change feeds directly into how we measure outcomes. The proof of the program's work is kept in three places:
More on how this is compiled is on the Impact page.