A shelter home is being constructed for special children in Lahore

Lahore: Provincial Minister for Education and Youth Affairs Punjab, Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan has stressed upon the administration of various educational institutions meant for imparting vocational training to special children to nominate some children from every institution having borderline disability so that they could be incorporated into inclusive education system along with the normal students.

While addressing a briefing session with the office-bearers of Rising Sun Education and Welfare Society, Lahore, the Minister welcomed the establishment of a model inclusive school by the society in Lahore for which a plot having an area of one kanal has been donated by PML-N leader Tahir Javed. He said, the inclusive education has proved more effective all over the world.

The Minister directed the Chief Executive of Punjab Educational Endowment Fund (PEEF) to collaborate with Rising Sun Welfare Society in establishing inclusive education system in different vocational training institutes working in Bahawalpur, Lodhran, Muzaffargarh and Bahawalnagar.

The briefing session was told that a shelter home and a shelter workshop for the special children having low intellectual capabilities are under construction on the canal bank in Lahore near Dental College. A plot having four kanals area has been donated to Rising Sun Welfare Society for this purpose by another philanthropist of Lahore.