A group of young girls gaze out of a tent in Jalozai Camp, Peshawar. PHOTO: FILE
The agreement was formalised in Islamabad on Wednesday between Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the European Union to Pakistan, Lars-Gunnar Wigemark, and Unicef Representative Islamabad, Dan Rohrmann.
These funds, made available through the European Commission's Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO), will enable Unicef to provide access to education for 3,000 children, including 1,500 girls in 30 schools currently operating in the Jalozai Camp, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
"Children are extremely vulnerable to conflicts and their education is often suffering," Wigemark.
"They risk carrying the burden of conflict throughout their lives. It is fitting that the Nobel Peace Prize funds benefit those who carry the hope for the future."
Unicef has been providing educational support to children in Jalozai Camp since 2008.
The education package includes school-in-a-box supplies, training for teachers, education for peace training and psychosocial counseling that will help children cope with traumatic experiences.
"Unicef Pakistan wishes to congratulate the EU for being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and is honoured to receive support for providing education to children affected by displacement and deprived of their fundamental right to quality education," said Rohrmann.
"These funds will provide an opportunity for children to reconnect with a safe learning environment that not only provides quality education but also gives some sense of normalcy to the many children that find themselves away from their normal social network and known environment."
In camp schools, these children not only receive education but also benefit from other basic services such as health, water, sanitation, hygiene, nutrition and protection interventions which ensure holistic childhood development.
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For decades billions and billions dollars, euro, pounds etc. of such funds comes from various sources. While nothing have been pouring into the required sectors or nor have been used in the right way…..mostly of such funds either goes to the secret funds or consumed by corruption or elite class from top to bottom. For decades how much funds transferred to Pakistan at various disasters like earth quick, flood relief, afghan and local refugee, propaganda or self-created war on terror, except the hidden funds sources having no record; actually have not been spend on education, upraising socioeconomic, road and infer-structure development, creating jobs opportunities, industry, alternative energies, basic health facilities, societies and human management, institutions, better organization of the country etc. While has been using in negative propaganda, creating new fronts, developing fake strategies for destruction then propagation then begging for more and more funds. But the sequence of such negative approach strategies how long will work to earn more and more money vs. self-integrity and prosperity. If any institute can spend billions of secret funds basically donations for gambling power politics, establishment of new political parties to be indirectly in power, division of own masses, media and propaganda as per dictation, political rivalry and other negative activities then how can one aspect for the real development and integrity.
@hasan rightly said . But soon IK will reject all these alms. We will not be called beggars anymore.
shame on us.... we get hard earned tax money from these people, and leave no stone unturned to hate them, damage them, and fight them. We are the worst ungrateful society right now in the planet, who bites the hand that feeds them... shame on us.
Hope the fund goes to either building primary & secondary schools or paying & training teachers. No small vision laptop scheme please!
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.....living on good will
These funds will be used to buy turbo engine vheilces and laptops and satellite phones the trickle effect will be minimum.