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The Buttercups- your wellbeing coach is a public health initiative by Dr. Asma Makhani, promoting emotional wellbeing in children, youth & caregivers through evidence-based, mindful, trauma-informed, community-rooted care and social-emotional learning.

Every community is a living archive, carrying generations of stories, traditions, values, and knowledge that cannot alwa...
06/08/2026

Every community is a living archive, carrying generations of stories, traditions, values, and knowledge that cannot always be found in textbooks.

As part of the Knowing Your Community domain at DAAIRA Youth Camp, participants were introduced to the principles and practice of oral history. Through immersive learning experiences, they developed skills in ethical interviewing, active listening, rapport building, and respectful documentation while engaging directly with community members.

More importantly, participants discovered that oral history extends far beyond preserving memories. It provides an experiential pathway to understanding how local culture, lived experiences, and indigenous knowledge shape identity, influence psychosocial development, and strengthen intergenerational connections.

By learning directly from communities, participants recognised that meaningful education, research, and community interventions must be informed by the knowledge, perspectives, and realities of the people they are designed to serve.

Moreover, a special thank you to Dr. Marium Sabri for her valuable contributions towards the conceptualization and ex*****on of the oral history module.

At DAAIRA, we believe communities are not only beneficiaries of change they are holders of knowledge, and listening is where meaningful learning begins.

The fourth domain of DAAIRA, Knowing Your Impact, challenged participants to rethink how meaningful development is creat...
06/08/2026

The fourth domain of DAAIRA, Knowing Your Impact, challenged participants to rethink how meaningful development is created. Rather than approaching communities as recipients of interventions, participants explored how sustainable change emerges when local knowledge, lived experience and community agency become the foundation of the development process.

Through an intensive Human-Centred Design training, youth learned to critically examine how problems are defined, identify root causes, understand stakeholder perspectives and co-create contextually relevant solutions. Using empathy, systems thinking, participatory inquiry and iterative design, they moved beyond designing for communities to designing with communities.

Drawing on contemporary perspectives in development, the programme emphasized that development is not simply the delivery of projects, it is the expansion of people's capabilities and freedoms to shape the lives and futures they value. By equipping young people with the competencies to listen, analyse, collaborate and innovate, DAAIRA invests in a generation capable of leading locally owned, evidence-informed and resilient grassroots interventions by providing the freedoms necessary to build adaptive capacity and lead programs themselves.

Across the world, adolescents living with chronic illness, displacement, social exclusion, and climate-related adversity...
29/07/2026

Across the world, adolescents living with chronic illness, displacement, social exclusion, and climate-related adversity often receive services designed to address their immediate needs but far fewer opportunities to develop the psychosocial capacities that enable them to thrive.

Moreover, we must consider how gender further deepens vulnerability. Therefore, Sakhi Spaces was created to bridge this gap.

Grounded in developmental science and an integrated psychosocial care approach, Sakhi Spaces reimagines support as a continuum of growth rather than crisis response. Moving beyond conventional support groups and classroom-based interventions, the model combines psychologically safe peer spaces for girls, structured mentorship, experiential learning, leadership development, civic participation, and hands-on capacity building to strengthen resilience, self-efficacy, adaptive coping, and future readiness.

Rather than viewing girls as passive recipients of care, Sakhi Spaces recognises them as capable individuals with strengths, aspirations, and the potential to become leaders within their families and communities by leveraging social networks. Through meaningful relationships, real-world experiences, and evidence-informed psychosocial interventions, girls are supported to find their voice, develop practical competencies, and transform adversity into opportunity at the grassroots level through peer based models.

For girls living with chronic illness, this approach extends care beyond clinical management by integrating psychosocial development into the treatment journey. For girls affected by displacement, humanitarian crises, or climate vulnerability, it creates protective environments that foster belonging, resilience, and agency while strengthening the capacities needed to navigate an increasingly uncertain world.

Sakhi Spaces is set to grow into a developmental ecosystem where girls are given the platform to explore purpose driven leadership, their personal values and aspirations, voice their opinions, gain perspective and become resilient individuals.

From 17th to 21st July, DAAIRA Youth Camp in Booni, Chitral brought together more than 75 young people from across the r...
28/07/2026

From 17th to 21st July, DAAIRA Youth Camp in Booni, Chitral brought together more than 75 young people from across the region for an immersive five-day educational experience.

What sets DAAIRA apart is our intentional integration of epistemic agency into educational development through evidence-informed psychosocial approaches. We believe educational development is about equipping young people to think critically, make informed decisions, adapt to change, and confidently shape their own futures.

Choosing a university, selecting a degree, exploring entrepreneurship, digital skills, financial literacy, e-commerce, and future career pathways require more than information. They require self-awareness, emotional resilience, critical thinking, communication, and informed decision-making.

A collaborative initiative by The Buttercups and Naveed-e-Falah, the programme combined nature-based psychosocial interventions, design thinking, Model United Nations, chess-based cognitive development, oral history, community fieldwork, project-based learning, and an Educational Expo focused on higher education, entrepreneurship, digital skills, financial literacy, and emerging career opportunities.

By embedding psychosocial development within educational experiences, DAAIRA empowers young people to make purposeful choices, contribute meaningfully to their communities, and build resilient futures.

We are grateful to our mentors, partners, and every participant who made this journey possible.

As part of the Knowing Others theme, participants explored networking as a foundational competency for educational devel...
28/07/2026

As part of the Knowing Others theme, participants explored networking as a foundational competency for educational development and future career readiness. Through structured experiential learning, they strengthened active listening, empathic communication, perspective-taking, relationship building, and collaborative dialogue, developing the interpersonal capabilities required to navigate increasingly interconnected academic, professional, and civic environments.

At DAAIRA, networking is understood as a deliberate process of building relational capital through trust, authenticity, and mutual value creation. These competencies enable young people to expand learning opportunities, access diverse perspectives, strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration, and build the professional relationships that support lifelong learning, leadership, and meaningful career development.

The second domain for the DAAIRA Youth Camp, Knowing Others, focused on challenging how current transmissive education v...
23/07/2026

The second domain for the DAAIRA Youth Camp, Knowing Others, focused on challenging how current transmissive education views students as global citizens.

By using Model United Nations training as a pedagogy for epistemic agency, participants gained exposure on perspective-taking, empathy, and democratic participation by helping young people understand the interconnectedness of people, communities, and global systems.

It enabled learners to critically evaluate evidence, deliberate across diverse perspectives, and construct informed responses to complex development challenges.

We believe Model UN should not remain confined to a select group of schools or institutions. By making it accessible, inclusive, and community-based, DAAIRA demonstrates how deliberative learning can strengthen systems thinking, collaborative leadership, and informed civic participation among young people, regardless of where they live.

DAAIRA Youth Camps first learning domain, Knowing Yourself, addressed a critical gap in youth development: the education...
23/07/2026

DAAIRA Youth Camps first learning domain, Knowing Yourself, addressed a critical gap in youth development: the education system often prepare young people for external success without first strengthening the internal capacities that sustain it and developing an innate sense of belonging and purpose.

The Social Emotional Learning & Mindfulness (SELM) Framework was designed on the principle that purpose-driven leadership, educational achievement, and meaningful community engagement emerge from building internal competencies that translate into the decisions, choices and way of thinking a person engages with the world around them.

Through Sakhi Circles, a pilot initiative establishing dedicated, psychologically safe spaces for girls and boys separately alongside our evidence-informed nature-based interventions, participants explored how intrinsic psychosocial growth can be translated into purposeful action.

Nature-based identity association, mindful tree connection, sensory immersion, ecological reflection, and restorative practices transformed nature into a developmental context where participants strengthened their relationship with themselves before learning to create meaningful impact within their communities.

It goes to show that educational development is multidimensional and requires highly contextualized learning environments to support development.

DAAIRA demonstrates that sustainable educational and community development begins by intentionally cultivating the individual behind the learner and the leader.

Throughout the DAAIRA Youth Camp in Sandi, Yasin, chess was intentionally integrated across the programme's core themes,...
22/07/2026

Throughout the DAAIRA Youth Camp in Sandi, Yasin, chess was intentionally integrated across the programme's core themes, Knowing Yourself, Knowing Others, Knowing Your Community, Knowing Your Future Prospects, and Knowing Your Impact, as a practical approach to developing the cognitive and psychosocial competencies that underpin educational and lifelong success.

Research increasingly recognises chess as an educational tool that strengthens executive functioning, including planning, working memory, cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, sustained attention, and strategic decision-making. These competencies are closely associated with academic performance, problem-solving, and adaptive functioning in unfamiliar and complex situations.

Within SELM Framework, chess extends beyond cognitive skill development. It provides opportunities for young people to strengthen self-awareness, regulate emotional responses under pressure, consider multiple perspectives, evaluate consequences before acting, and make thoughtful decisions while adapting to changing circumstances.

Across each theme, the game was facilitated as an experiential learning process, enabling participants to connect these competencies with educational choices, interpersonal relationships, community engagement, and future planning. Rather than teaching strategy in isolation, chess became a structured medium for developing the habits of thinking, reflection, and decision-making that support resilient learners and responsible community leaders.

We are proud to have successfully completed our two-week Nature-Based Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness (SELM) p...
20/07/2026

We are proud to have successfully completed our two-week Nature-Based Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness (SELM) program for young adults at YouthYard.

Over two weeks, 40 young adults at YouthYard
participated in 8 hours of structured experiential learning, including 4 hours of Green Space and 4 hours of Blue Space interventions. Guided by neuroscience and developmental science, the program used nature as an evidence-informed environment to strengthen self-awareness, emotional regulation, attentional control, resilience, empathy, and healthy social connection.

Emerging evidence suggests that intentional engagement with natural environments supports stress regulation, attentional restoration, executive functioning, emotional processing, and psychological wellbeing. Our Nature-Based SELM framework translates these evidence-supported principles into meaningful developmental experiences.

The immediate impact was reflected in participants' own experiences. Many reported feeling deeply relaxed, mentally refreshed, emotionally lighter, more present, and more connected with themselves and others. While these are participant-reported outcomes rather than clinical measures, they align with the evidence-supported benefits associated with structured nature-based mindfulness and social-emotional learning.

At The Buttercups- your wellbeing coach, we remain committed to pioneering Nature-Based Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness (SELM), creating evidence-informed experiences that empower young people to thrive emotionally, socially, and psychologically.

Two weeks. Forty young adults. Eight hours. One shared journey toward resilience, wellbeing, and lifelong human development.





We are delighted to have successfully completed our two-week Nature-Based Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness (SEL...
20/07/2026

We are delighted to have successfully completed our two-week Nature-Based Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness (SELM) program for young adults at YouthYard.

Over a two-week period, 40 young adults participated in 8 hours of structured Nature-Based Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness (SELM), comprising 4 hours of Green Space interventions and 4 hours of Blue Space experiences. The program intentionally utilized natural environments as evidence-informed settings to cultivate social-emotional competencies, strengthen psychological wellbeing, and promote healthy development.

Through guided mindfulness, reflective practice, collaborative learning, and immersive nature-based experiences, participants strengthened self-awareness, emotional regulation, attentional control, empathy, relationship skills, resilience, and responsible decision-making.

Evidence from neuroscience, developmental psychology, and environmental health suggests that exposure to natural environments supports stress regulation, attentional restoration, executive functioning, emotional processing, and social connectedness. Our Nature-Based SELM framework intentionally integrates these evidence-supported mechanisms into meaningful learning experiences that promote healthy development.

At The Buttercups- your wellbeing coach, we remain committed to pioneering Nature-Based Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness (SELM), translating scientific evidence into practical experiences that empower young people to thrive emotionally, socially, and psychologically.

Two weeks. Eight hours. One transformative journey toward greater self-awareness, resilience, and wellbeing.

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