PEF is playing important role in ensuring equitable access to education:MD Tariq Mahmood

Lahore: It is heartening that the partner schools of Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) are playing important role in ensuring equitable access to education for the students belonging to low income families. Due to the well-designed network of PEF partner schools in 36 districts of the province, 1.9 million needy male and female students are able to study up to matric level. This has also benefitted a large number of girls to study as our schools are near to their homes and localities.

MD PEF Tariq Mahmood said this while meeting with a group of school partner from different districts who called on him at his office on Saturday. Deputy MD (Ops) Tariq Rafiq and Program Directors were also present on the occasion. The meeting reviewed the Public Private Partnership based models of education espoused by this foundation for the disfranchised communities.

MD PEF said that future of the country is directly associated with education as it is the main  tool that can help the country to excel in the comity of nations. For the benefit of the deserving children, different useful initiatives have been introduced including inclusive education for the differently able children. Tariq Mahmood expressed the satisfaction that PEF’s mobile schooling project in Cholistan is helping the children of nomad communities to study who live deep in the desert. PEF has also given importance to teachers’ training as it helps in improving professional capacity besides introducing new concepts which help in promoting quality education.

On the occasion, school partners thanked the PEF for its proactive approach towards education-promotion and said that different types of educational interventions are helping the low cost schools to improve their standards. This has also helped in lessening educational backwardness in the far-off and less developed areas of the province.