Sardar Khan arrived in Tangy Banda with a mission.

Tangy Banda is one of the most remote villages in the North West Frontier Province, located almost 70 miles away from Kohat City, in union council Shakardara Rural. When ACE first identified the area as appropriate for a community based school, it faced a number of obstacles, including the fact that the village lacks the most basic infrastructure (electricity, drinking water, health facilities, and paved roads), and that the terrain is incredibly rugged, navigable only by all-terrain vehicles or by camel. Because of this, there also were no community members with the proper schooling or qualifications to teach the children of Tangy Banda.

As is often the case in more remote communities then, ACE looked to neighboring villages to recruit a teacher. They identified Sardar Khan, who himself comes from a poor family in the community of Janak, almost 7 miles away from Tangy Banda. The villagers have managed to pool resources to not only provide space, floor mats and water facilities for the school, but to also provide food and accommodation for Sardar while he is teaching. Sardar is incredibly hard-working and dedicated, and feels quite fulfilled to be teaching children who are growing up under the same difficult conditions he had to overcome to fulfill his dream.