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Pakistani teacher wins prestigious award for schooling underprivileged students

Pakistani school teacher Sister Zeph has won the prestigious Global Teacher Prize 2023 for educating the underprivileged children. She established a school in the courtyard of her home in Gujranwala at the age of just 13. “We are delighted to announce that Sister Zeph, an English, Urdu, culture, inter-faith harmony, climate change teacher at Gujranwala, Punjab in Pakistan, has been named the winner of the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2023..,” the orgnisation announced in a statement. The prestigious award was organised in collaboration with UNESCO and in strategic partnership with a UAE-based global philanthropic organisation named Dubai Cares.

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