EDOPIA

Edopia was established in 2014, as the first alternate, progressive and democratic learning space in Pakistan. It is the brainchild of Jaweria Sethi, a LUMS Alumna. While still at her university, Jaweria noticed the need for a venture that would empower children to become independent learners. Despite going to one of the best schools in the city and doing well academically all her life, she felt unfulfilled. She felt that the years she spent in school could have been better organized. The traditional systems of education and schooling do not encourage thinking and self-reflection. They are archaic and inadequate. Jaweria felt that schools did not have the institutional fabric to cater to the social, emotional and personal needs of a child, alongside the academic ones. She envisioned a place where a child’s pursuit of happiness and purpose begins. A place which does not produce ‘better adults’, rather places value on childhood. Where every child is viewed as an empowered entity. A space that would facilitate children to take better decisions in life. Hence, she came up with Edopia. Edopia is not a school. It is a community of learners and burgeoning ideas. A space where learning is not confined by the parameters of a space, age and discipline.