Rise of the Phoenix
Batal Khan lost the Karachi shoe shop he had built when a riot burned it down, and restarted as a street cobbler in Islamabad on PTP’s growth programme.
Pilot Project
Letting Change speak for its self
Video interviews with street cobblers from the second cohort, recorded a month after they finished the PTP business growth programme.
Business Growth Manual for Street Cobblers – The field test
In September 2012 PTP field-tested version 1.1 of its Business Growth Manual, then in Urdu, with four street cobblers over five two-hour evening sessions.
Geographical Area Covered for the pilot of the Cobbler/Mochee Project
PTP’s cobbler pilot covered Rawalpindi and Chichawatni in Punjab and Haripur and Darra Adam Khel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where surveys were seized in 2012.
Demographics of Street Cobblers Surveyed – Their age range
PTP’s 2012 pilot survey of street cobblers found 47.39% were aged 12 to 28 and 70.14% were aged 12 to 40, reflecting Pakistan’s youth bulge.
The Mochee Project (Street Cobbler Project)
An outline of the Mochee Project for street cobblers in Pakistan, after surveys in Chichawatni, Rawalpindi, Haripur and Darra Adam Khel.
Why street cobblers?
Why PTP chose street cobblers: one cobbler’s story from Haripur and a pilot survey of 444 cobblers in four areas of Pakistan that shaped the project.