Alisher Khan (GPISH Class of 2003), Founding member and President of SHAHADA, A Child Empowerment Society set up in 2008 in the mountainous region of Chitral, North Pakistan, has initiated an innovative pilot project entitled ‘The Bees and the Children’. Alisher describes the project as ‘a friendship that pays in quality education and health for children’. It is a self- initiative of Chitrali villagers who are currently led by young educated people under the umbrella of SHAHADA. The project has three components, Early Childhood Development Centres, Education Financing Project, and Maternal and Child Health Centre.