🌾 Rural Digital Skills

First-touch digital literacy for villages and small towns — phone-first, Urdu-supported, batch-taught with WhatsApp.

“A farmer, a shopkeeper in a katcha-bazaar town, or a retired school teacher should be able to use a smartphone like a tool — not get used by it.”

🧩 What's inside counts live from the platform

Curated bundle — every component is already published and in use.

Digital Literacy Basics 6 modules Phone, internet, email, safe browsing foundations Farmer Digital Toolkit 3 modules Weather, rates, mandi info, agri-scam protection DigiSkills.pk Course Group 6 courses Curated free DigiSkills tracks for rural learners Seniors\u2019 Digital Basics 7 modules Smartphone, WhatsApp, mobile banking, Ehadnama scams

📄 Printable one-pager — Rural Digital Skills (A4 leave-behind)

🚚 Delivery model

👥 Cohort batches

Teacher/facilitator-led batches with progress dashboards
Weekly live sessions + structured module flow
Attendance, wellness and at-risk monitoring built in

💬 WhatsApp-first support

Daily nudges and lesson links where learners already are
Audio lessons downloadable straight to WhatsApp
No laptop required — phone-first design

🎧 Audio mode (Sunno Sabaq)

LISTEN buttons on lessons and scenarios
MP3 cache for low-bandwidth districts
Pictorial big-icon variant for low-literacy learners

🇵🇰 Urdu + local context

Urdu translations across money, safety and women's streams
Pakistani examples, PKR amounts, local scam scenarios
Roman-Urdu and regional language options

🎯 Who it serves

→First-time smartphone users
→Farmers and rural traders
→Youth in towns without training centres
→Seniors joining family WhatsApp groups

📈 Backing platform live totals across all of Maahir

840Modules

98Tracks

9,813Exercises

7,912Scenarios

11,031Role-plays

2,174Micro-cards

🤝 Potential partners

We are opening MoU conversations with organisations whose mandate matches this program. Potential partners for Rural Digital Skills:

🤝 Universal Service Fund (USF) 🤝 PM Youth Programme (PMYP) 🤝 NAVTTC 🤝 Rural development NGOs

Potential partners only — listed as conversation targets. No logo, endorsement, funding or existing agreement is implied. Organisations listed may request removal at any time via hello@maahir.io.

✉️ Start a conversation

Tell us who you are and what a win would look like — our partnerships team replies within 2 working days.

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