Stressing education: RAHA sending kids back to school

The United Nation’s Refugees Affected and Hosting Areas (RAHA) programme has enrolled several out-of-school children in government-run primary schools with the support of the education department in Jogani union council of Peshawar. According to a press release, a ceremony was held at the Government Primary School for Boys in Jogani to mark the work carried out by the RAHA programme and was attended by the sub-divisional education officer of the education department, Jhaddi Khan, and other government and non-government officials. During the ceremony, the audience was enthralled by school students who performed various skits, poems, songs and other items. Khan reaffirmed that the provincial government will enroll a high number of children which were out of school in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Implemented by UNDP with financial assistance from European Union, the RAHA initiative has enrolled 87 boys and 96 girls in various public sector-schools in Jogani.


Published in The Express Tribune, May 29^th, 2014.