‘Over a million children getting free education’

LAHORE
PUNJAB Education Foundation has provided the educational right to children from marginalised communities by providing them free schooling in their districts. As a result, 1.66 million deserving male and female students are getting free education at PEF partner schools in 36 districts of the province.
This is most vibrant social revolution taking place at the grassroots which will bring positive change in the society by developing confident and educated youth for leading the country to the prosperity.
This was stated by Chairman Punjab Education Foundation Engr. Qamar-ul-Islam Raja while talking to a 15-member delegation of the school owners associated with Punjab Education Foundation under its New School Programme (NSP) at his office on Wednesday, according to a handout issued here.
While discussing the role and rationale of the foundation, the chairman said the PEF had given hope and confidence to the needy parents who could not send their children to schools for want of resources. Now PEF is bearing the educational expenses of all such children and different types of beneficial free education models have been designed and introduced to ensure that no one is left without education. The Chief Minister’s Roadmap Programme is another important step towards securing the child rights, he added.
Punjab Education Foundation has also launch a six-year long programme of providing free education to dropouts and out of school male and female children in Punjab who cannot go to schools due to various socio-economic compulsions.