BISP DG visits PEF

Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Director General Sarah Saeed visited the head office of the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) and held detailed meeting with Managing Director Tariq Mahmood to join hands for children’s well-being in the province.

According to a press release on the occasion, different prospects of education-promotion in the impecunious strata, in partnership with the private sector, were discussed in detail.

The DG said that through Waseela-e-Taleem (WET) initiative, the BISP was urging its beneficiary families to send their children to school so that they could become literate and become economically self-sufficient in the future and around 3.3 million children (5-12 years) of age were present in the 1.47 million beneficiary families, out of which around 2.65 million children were out of school and only 0.66 million were currently attending the schools. She added BISP was targeting to reach these out of school children within 2 years by introducing the stipend amount to encourage the beneficiary families for sending their children in school instead of involving in child labour. She told BISP was aiming to reduce the child labour and to increase the human development by extending WET programme in 7 new districts of Punjab. BISP stipend amount would not only increase the enrolment numbers in primary school but would also reduce the drop-out ratio of currently attending school children, she added. —Correspondent