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History
– the vision of Jahandad Khan
As a teenager, Jahandad Khan ran away
from his village to become a cabin boy. The boy from Lilla, a
small village in the heart of British India, returned home
more than 25 years later, a prosperous plantation owner in
East Africa.
Though he never received a formal
education, Jahandad returned to Lilla, in the Potohar region,
with a vastly broadened worldview and a passion for education.
He realized that education is the key to success for every man
and woman.
Back in Lilla, he put his philosophy into
action. Each child, even his daughters, was encouraged to
study: something virtually unheard of in that remote village
in the 1930s. One daughter had an aptitude for mathematics and
entered a scholarship competition, and he took her 22 miles
every day by bus for lessons from a Hindu tutor. She won the
competition, and later became a well-known teacher herself.
Other children and grandchildren became successful government
servants, doctors and pilots. |
