LAHORE – The Punjab government has offered support to a Sindh-based leading education sector non-profit organization to extend services to the less developed and rural areas in the province.
Punjab Health Minister Dr Javed Akram was speaking at an event organised by the Green Crescent Trust (GCT) on the eve of International Day of Education.
Lahore-based businessmen and industrialists lent support to the GCT’s charitable drive to enrol a total of 100,000 out-of-school children in Sindh by establishing 250 schools in backward and remote areas of the province.
The Punjab Health Minister appreciated that the GCT in its 29 years-long journey had established 166 charitable schools in underprivileged areas with enrolment of 31,799 plus children from deprived families.
He said that such a vast network of charitable schools had genuinely shared the burden of the state whose solemn constitutional obligation is to provide quality education to each and every child in the country irrespective of his status and location.
He praised that the GCT had recently extended the footprint of its charitable work for the first time beyond Sindh by establishing a charitable school in Hub district of Balochistan.
He said the charities should actively work to educate children from the underprivileged communities in Balochistan to support efforts to overcome the backwardness of the province. He invited the GCT to extend its charitable work in the education sector to Punjab to enrol out-of-school children.
“Punjab government will provide whatever support the GCT needs to establish its schools in rural and deprived areas of the province whether in the form of land, funding, or availability of trained teachers,” he said.
He assured that the Punjab School Education Department would work with sincere charities and NGOs to educate children in remote and under-developed parts of the province.
Dr Shehla Javed Akram urged the charities to strive hard to educate girls from deserving families to promote the cause of woman empowerment.
