PEF’s partner school to ensure atmosphere for the grooming of the students: MD PEF Tariq Mahmood

Lahore: The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has ensured that its school partners should arrange conducive atmosphere for the overall grooming of the students. For this purpose, special attention is paid to the provision of tidy atmosphere & facilities like necessary furniture etc. Similarly, schools should have airy classrooms besides availability of clean drinking water and hygiene toilets.

This was stated by MD PEF Tariq Mahmood while meeting with a seven-member delegation of school partners from Lahore at his office on Thursday. PEF’s DMD (Ops.) Tariq Rafiq and program directors were also present.

Tariq Mahmood said that school partners should work hard to supplement the efforts of the foundation and also motivate their students to actively take part in different co curricular activities for their personality-grooming. In the light of the Punjab Government’s directions, we have strictly banned corporal punishment in our partner schools so that our students could study in an affable atmosphere, he added. It is satisfying that public private partnership based educational projects have helped to facilitate the poorest of the poor families in the education of their children. He said that the foundation has set up its network of partner schools in all the 36 districts. These schools are available to the students in their close proximity. The PEF is also credited of efficiently using the latest tools of information technology to get its system going in a smooth manner.

MD PEF told that Punjab Inclusive Education Project (PIEP) will help the differently abled students to grow through the schooling funded by the foundation. PEF has also shouldered different capacity building programs to improve skills of the partner schools’ teachers. It is expected that the employment of district monitoring staff will further strengthen the monitoring mechanism at the grassroots, concluded the MD.

On the occasion, school partners thanked the foundation for its support and technical assistance to the low cost schools.