The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has opened the doors of quality education to 47 thousands poor and deserving students through its New School Program (NSP) in the province to eradicate illiteracy in the poor and far-flung hinterlands where school infrastructure is scarce or too inadequate to accommodate the poor children who could not afford their educational expenses.
Chairman Punjab Education Foundation Raja Anwar stated this while addressing the prize distribution function of a girls PEF-NSP school on Lahore-Kasur road on Saturday. Teachers, parents and girl students attended the ceremony in large numbers.
Addressing the function, Raja Anwar said that NSP has emerged as a ray of hope for the poor children especially the girls who couldn’t go to afar places for studies on public transport or unsupportive cultural norms of their families also hamper their education. He said that partnership has been made with 421 schools in various districts under the NSP to promote quality education in the education-wise backward areas. PEF-NSP school teachers’ capacity building is also done to improve and strengthen the educational standards, he added. He further said that promotion of girls’ education is the need of the hour so that our girls could play their due role in national mainstream. Various PEF programs have changed the destinies of poor children by providing them quality education in a conducive atmosphere near to their doorsteps, he concluded.
The function was also addressed by the school principal. Later, the PEF Chairman distributed prizes among the brilliant students.