In the rural village, where poverty cast long shadows over children's dreams, families struggled to provide even the most basic school supplies for their children, and children found themselves unable to attend classes regularly.

Save the Children's Sponsorship programme aims to reduce absenteeism in school attendance and support children to follow their dreams by providing comprehensive stationery packages for 20,494 children. Each child received a school bag filled with notebooks, pens, pencils, rulers, colour pencils, erasers, and sharpeners – tools that would open doors to education and opportunity.

As the packages were distributed, children who had once felt left behind now felt ready to chase their dreams and attend school regularly.

Najib, a 35-year-old principal at one of the sponsorship target schools, said, "Save the Children supported this school in many ways, including the boundary wall, solar panel well, strengthening the Parent Teacher Association, training schoolteachers, awareness raising at the community level, and now they are distributing stationery packages. After our school became a target of the Sponsorship programme, the attendance rate increased significantly."

Eleven-year-old Wais*, a fourth-grade student, said, "I had only one notebook for my 6 subjects. I received a stationery package; I can write my homework, take notes, and draw. Some of my classmates didn't have notebooks and pens to take notes or do homework, so they wouldn't attend regularly. After this, they would also come to school every day."

The potential impact of this activity includes an increase in attendance rate of children in the school, enhances children's learning by enabling them to participate in classroom activities and complete their homework, and improves self-esteem by boosting the children’s confidence and making them prepared for school.