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Rural Digital Skills — Program One-Pager

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🌾 The program in one paragraph

Rural Digital Skills is first-touch digital literacy for villages and small towns: phone-first, Urdu-supported, batch-taught with WhatsApp. Farmers checking rates and weather safely, youth in towns without training centres, seniors joining family groups without falling for Ehadnama scams — practical skills, Pakistani context, zero laptop required.

🧩 What we bring (already built)

Component	What it covers	Scale
Digital Literacy Basics	Phone, internet, email, safe browsing foundations	6 modules
Farmer Digital Toolkit	Weather, rates, mandi info, agri-scam protection	In curation
DigiSkills.pk course group	Curated free DigiSkills tracks for rural learners	Curated directory
Seniors' Digital Basics	Smartphone, WhatsApp, mobile banking safety	5 modules

🚚 Delivery model

Cohort batches run by local facilitators — teacher dashboards included
Audio (Sunno Sabaq) mode with MP3 cache for low-bandwidth districts
Urdu translations and pictorial big-icon variants for low-literacy learners

📈 Reach today

Maahir currently carries 350+ live modules across 80+ tracks, 5,000+ exercises and a Learning Hub directory of 250+ free external courses — all free and phone-first. Vocational and rural-relevant streams (mobile repair, electrician, stitching) add hands-on trades coverage.

🤝 What a partnership looks like

Your district networks + our platform: USF-style telecentre and UC-level rollout
Facilitator training for your field staff (2-day onboarding)
Progress reporting by district/tehsil for your dashboards

✉️ Contact

Partnerships — Maahir · hello@maahir.io · play.maahir.io/initiatives/rural-digital-skills

Potential partners: Universal Service Fund (USF), PM Youth Programme (PMYP), NAVTTC, rural development NGOs — conversation-stage only; no endorsement implied.