PEF Regional Director Naveed Abbas said that around 175,000 deserving students were enrolled in PEF partner schools in 10 northern districts of the Punjab. STOCK IMAGE
Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has set itself the objective of arranging free education for 2.2 million drop-out children in the Punjab by 2019, PEF Chairman Qamarul Islam Raja said on Monday.
Speaking at a departmental meeting held at the PEF regional office, Rawalpindi, Islam said that the PEF was trying to promote education among the poor who could not afford to send their children to school. “The PEF efforts will go a long way in eradicating illiteracy and ignorance from the province,” he said.
“We are extending life-changing opportunity of free school education to the children who otherwise cannot access it due to lack of resources.
The PEF has introduced various programmes based on public-private partnership for school education in the province.
Free educational initiatives of the PEF are the biggest venture of its kind in the province,” he said.
He said that the PEF had also taken steps to ensure conducive atmosphere in its partner schools besides arranging capacity-building training for teachers and principals.
“We have also started an initiative for child workers and housemaids so that they can change their life through education,” he said.
PEF Regional Director Naveed Abbas said that around 175,000 deserving students were enrolled in PEF partner schools in 10 northern districts of the Punjab. “The PEF provides monthly fee and textbooks to students of partner school,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 13th, 2015.
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