‘PEF promoting free education’

LAHORE
The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has designed and implemented best educational models in partnership with private sector to promote gratis education in the indigent strata. These models have also helped to promote education in remote and less-developed areas where no other schooling facility is available.
This was stated by Punjab Education Foundation Managing Director Dr Aneela Salman while addressing the annual prize distribution ceremony at a PEF partner school in Choa Saidan Shah, according to a hand out issued on Sunday.
She said PEF partnership has resulted in providing numerous socio-economic benefits to the local communities at grassroots level. This has helped in increasing girls’ education as well as motivating the parents to send their children to PEF partner schools where educational expenses are borne out by the foundation.
PEF has played leading role in achieving the goals of chief minister’s roadmap programme and now this foundation will proactively work to make ‘parho Punjab barho Punjab’ a real success. “We have targeted to educate 2.8 million deserving students by 2018. For this purpose, expansion phases of different free education programmes are announced every year so that more deserving children could access to this free education models, she said.”
While giving a detail of different PEF sponsored interventions, she said interactive classroom technology has been introduced in selected 25 partner schools in Chakwal, Lahore and Multan.