Reporter Profiles: Pakistan

Huma Khurshid, Mudassar Hussain and Muhammad Haroon are Plan’s Goodwill youth reporters from Pakistan.

Huma lives in Chakwal district, southern Pakistan and is a member of Kawish youth media group which produces TV shows, documentaries, radio shows and press articles. The latest media project for Huma’s club Kawish is about street children titled Success stories of youth in difficult circumstances. A future project, working with Plan, will be on the issue of drug addiction in young people

Mudassar and Muhammad are members of the Plan Youth Group (PYG) in Vehari district in central Pakistan. Mudassar and Muhammad’s club PYG produce a radio show highlighting the issue of girl’s education. They also use photography on the theme of "Transportation issues" and "Child labour".

Name: Huma Khurshid
Age: 17
Country: Pakistan
Youth Media Club: Kawish youth media group

Pre-departure Q&A

Where do you study?
For study I have to travel to another town because we don’t have a higher school and college in our village only a boy’s higher school and girl’s primary school. We travel on van to reach the college and it takes about 40-50 minutes to be there.

What sports and games do you play in your community?
Among other things the village lacks recreation facilities for children. There is no playing ground in the village so children usually play cricket, football, bantay (marbles) and phitto garm (a game played between two teams with a tennis ball and clay stones) in the streets and fields. The girl-children play Panj-Geet (a game like jack stones), Cheenjo (similar to hop-scotch) and other games in the courtyard of any big house in the neighbourhood. Bull Race and Kabbadi are the traditional games of the area however these have been replaced with the modern trends of cricket and football.

Name: Mudassar Hussain
Age: 18
Country: Pakistan
Youth Media Club: Plan Youth Group (PYG)

Pre-departure Q&A

What do you hope to achieve while in Australia?
To have a great exposure of the modern techniques in projecting the situation through media, and how to design effective media campaigns.

What do you know about Melbourne?
Only the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground)

What do you know about the Commonwealth Games?
These games are arranged to promote healthy competition among the Commonwealth countries and promotion of health relationship and cooperation among these countries.

Name: Muhammad Haroon
Age: 20
Country: Pakistan
Youth Media Club: Plan Youth Group (PYG)

Pre-departure Q&A

What do you like most about being in a youth media club?
To project the girl education issues and child labour.

What is life like in your country?
There is joint family system in our society and people live the simple life, with very few having use of modern technology in their lives. But people are very openhearted, cooperative and friendly.

What are you most looking forward to?
Having interaction with youth from multicultural backgrounds.

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