MUZAFFARABAD (Web Desk) – The Unesco and education department of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) have agreed to promote girls education under the Malala Education Fund, for raising girls literacy and education in Pakistan, local media reported.
This was decided in a meeting between AJK Education Secretary Abbas Khan and Unesco Country Director Vibeke Jensen on Wednesday. Jonson told Abbas that Malala Fund will bear expenses of all reading material (books and note books) of deserving children besides providing them a monthly stipend of Rs 500 per month to each student in the backward and under developed areas of Azad Kashmir.
Unesco will initially launch the programme in Neelum Valley’s Gurace, Hatain Bala’s Banamula and Muzaffarabad’s Kayimanja and Saadpura union councils (UCs).
Expressing his gratitude, Raja Abbas assured the delegation of his full support and hoped that the initiative would prove a milestone for raising girl literacy in the area.
Khan said Unesco would provide stationary and lunch to primary girls students of the four UCs. Under the fund, boundary walls of vulnerable schools would also be constructed.
“The NGOs will get support to promote primary education and will be monitored by the education secretariat,” he said.
Khan added that in the first phase, the UCs would receive funds for three years.
