PEF free schooling for special children

LAHORE

Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has provided free quality education to 1,251 special students in 194 partner schools in seven selected districts of the province.

PEF Managing Director Tariq Mahmood said this while briefing Special Education Department Secretary Ambreen Raza at his office on Friday.

Other PEF and Special Education Department  officers also attended the meeting. The meeting reviewed the progress and expressed satisfaction that the parents of special children were taking interest in the education of their children.

The PEF MD said that the project, aimed to identify and help rehabilitate the children with minor disabilities through free schooling facility, was launched in Lahore, Multan, Vehari, Rawalpindi, Attock, Jhelum and Chakwal districts.

Training of 268 teachers of partner schools, attached with this project, has already been completed by the foundation. 

He said these schools were provided with funds to develop their infrastructure for the physically challenged students.

He said that the project was part of Punjab Inclusive Education Project (PIEP) launched in collaboration with Provincial Special Education Department.

Ambreen Raza said that quality assisted devices would be given to such students free of cost by the Special Education Department. "Together, we will provide best educational facilities to the special students so that they can study and emerge as confident and useful citizens of  society", she concluded.