BMWT provides books to needy students of KPK

Lahore: Begum Mehmooda Welfare Trust has provided course books, notebooks and stationery items to as many as 125 students studying at different levels at the government schools in Desra valley, Harripur. In the next phase, the Trust would provide school uniform to these young students.

These students were in need of these books to continue their education in the academic year 2013-14.

This announcement would be a continuation of Trust efforts to provide quality education to the street children, said a news item issued here today. In the academic year 2012-13, Begum Mehmooda Welfare Trust (BMWT) has provided free education to  many children and would continue their financial assistance in the coming years also.

These students have excelled in their curricular and extra-curricular activities during the last academic year.

The parents of these selected students from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad were unable to manage academic expenses. In order to provide quality education, Begum Mehmooda Welfare Trust joined hands with two private schools located in Barakahu – a suburb area of federal Capital and enrolled these children.

Hina Fysal, Chief Executive and Co-Founder, Begum Mehmooda Welfare Trust (BMWT) said that in continuation of financial assistance, Trust have enrolled additional 100 students during this year which will help to increase the literacy level in the area. Trust would also expand the computer lab and provide more computers to the schools to equip the students with latest technology and its tools.

She further informed that, 49 per cent of the country’s population lives in poverty and Pakistan’s health and education budget is among the lowest in the developing world, so it is needed that every department should play its part to help the people in need.