Working with national and local NGOs and national media outlets, IWPR established current affairs discussion clubs and introduced basic journalism workshops in 42 state schools and madrassas in the target areas. Some 4,000 students, both boys and girls, have participated in the discussion clubs and 700 have joined journalism workshops.

Student journalists have published dozens of articles in local and national newspapers, raising awareness of social, economic and political issues, including lack of clean water and sanitation in NWFP and the deplorable condition of school facilities in the Swat Valley following the ousting of the Taliban.