After his father died, Sualeh Khan began thinking about how he could help support his family. He had passed Matric (10th grade) and started his first year of college. He wanted to work, but he did not yet have a skill he could offer anyone.
“I wanted to become a strong support for my family one day.”
Sualeh Khan
His school told him about courses offered with jugnuu in Surjani Town. Sualeh had attended that school since KG-1, so he listened when they suggested he join. He signed up to learn digital literacy, financial literacy, and communication skills. At the time, he expected to finish the courses and take what he had learned with him.
The people teaching him saw more he could do. Sualeh still names Sir Shoaib, Miss Mehreen, and Miss Tayyaba when he talks about those early days. They urged him to participate, even when something felt difficult. One instruction stayed with him: “Do not give up.”
Later, Sualeh joined an AI course taught by Sir Faisal. His experience with AI had mostly been limited to using ChatGPT for assignments. In the course, he saw how to create videos, and he began to imagine doing that work for a client. He practiced each topic and completed the assignments. Once the course ended, he asked Sir Zahid if he could teach AI to children at jugnuu’s summer camp.
He had come looking for someone to teach him. Now he wanted to be useful to the students coming after him.
“When the students completed their assignments, understood what I taught them, and moved forward with their projects, I felt very happy,” Sualeh said.
“I felt as if I was seeing myself in those children.”
Teaching also gave him the confidence to ask for paid work. Sir Zahid knew a real estate professional in Toronto, Munir, who needed social media videos. Sualeh said he wanted to try.
Munir provided ideas, images, and his voice. Sualeh’s job was to turn them into finished videos. He had never worked with an international client, and he knew he had little professional experience. He put his full effort into the first video and sent it. Munir liked it. The work continued.
A later request was harder. Munir wanted his own voice used consistently in the videos. Sualeh spoke with Sir Zahid, learned how to use AI voice cloning for the project, and sent Munir the result. The client liked those videos too.
Sualeh kept improving as he worked. The Toronto projects gave him something he could show when he approached businesses in Pakistan: examples of work he had completed for a client. He found a project himself and created a video advertisement shaped around that business’s product and goals.
He had wanted to help his family when he walked into jugnuu. Now he could see a way to earn with the skills he had learned. He could also see students at the summer camp who deserved the same chance to try.
As his client work grew, Sualeh spoke to Sir Zahid about involving them. The jugnuu Lab in Surjani Town grew from that conversation. Sualeh trains students there and gives them opportunities to work on practical projects. He wants them to gain experience, build portfolios, and eventually find clients of their own.
Sualeh has not forgotten how uncertain his future felt after Matric, or how much it mattered when his teachers kept encouraging him. When asked what he would say to the younger Sualeh arriving at jugnuu for the first time, he gave him the same advice they had given him.
“Do not give up. You have no idea where this small step will take you.”
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