PEEF Scholars paid rich tributes to Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on launching Punjab Educational Endowment Fund. They said that by providing scholarships for education on merit basis through PEEF, Shehbaz Sharif provided educational opportunities to talented children of poor families like us and materialized dreams of their parents. Their dreams have been fulfilled through PEEF of Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, they added. PEFF scholar becoming a teacher after study through scholarships of Punjab Educational Endowment Fund, expressing views said that his father died when he was two years old and acquiring higher education was very difficult for him but PEEF assisted him. Had PEEF not helped him he would have been a labourer. He said that no one from his family went to college for education but he studied in university due to PEEF. Another PEEF scholar belonging to Sher Shah Multan said that it was the desire of his parents that he should get higher education but they have limited resources. Punjab Educational Endowment Fund materialized his dreams, he added. A woman PEEF scholar said that her father is a Postman and cannot afford expenditure of M. Phil but PEEF materialized her dream. A woman PEEF scholar belonging to Tehsil Rojhan district Rajanpur said that his father was a junior clerk and he can never get higher education through income of his pension but PEEF provided her opportunity upon which she is thankful to Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif. Another PEEF scholar said that his father was a school teacher but due to his death, it was impossible for him to study. He undergone child labour and forced to work on a book center. He got scholarship from educational fund on acquiring good marks in middle examination, which changed his life and now he is getting higher education at LUMS through this fund and its credit goes to Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif. A PEEF scholar belonging to Nankana Sahib said that he belongs to a poor family and acquired education through scholarship of educational fund and now performing his duty as medical officer in Nankana Hospital. He said that it was not easy for him to get medical education but he crossed difficult phase of educational expenditure through PEEF. PEEF scholars termed Punjab Educational Endowment Fund as an excellent achievement of Punjab government and said that due to this fund, children of resource-less families are studying in prestigious educational institutions and appreciated this splendid programme of Punjab government. They said that Punjab government provided them resources for meeting educational expenditure and they will return this loan of the nation and spare no effort in serving the country. They said that only due to this educational fund, talented students of poor families are studying in OXFORD, Cambridge, LUMS and other prestigious universities and they got opportunity of doing Ph. D.
