Literacy: UNICEF to improve schools in K-P, FATA

ISLAMABAD: Almost half a million conflict-affected children in Pakistan will benefit from a better learning environment due to support from the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) for Unicef’s ‘Welcome to School Initiative’. The programme was inaugurated at a ceremony held at Nawan Kalay Government Primary School in Swat on Friday. Under the project, a total of 800 schools in six districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and 350 schools in two agencies of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) will be provided with essential education materials and equipment to enhance learning. As a result, approximately 483,000 children affected by the conflict will be able to return to school.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 22^nd, 2011.