ISLAMABAD: Dubai Cares has launched a $8m education programme ‘Teachers Without Frontiers’ (TWF) for unprivileged children of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan provinces.
Dubai Cares Chief Executive Officer Tariq Al Gurg told the media that the organisation had successfully completed two of its three-phased project worth $6.2 million in the three provinces to provide quality of primary education to the children. Tariq was accompanied by UAE ambassador to Pakistan Essa Abdulla Al Basha Al Noaimi.
Tariq said that this was an integrated programme which worked in close coordination with educational departments of the respective provinces and was meant to buttress efforts being already made by Pakistan. It works in close liaison with the Institute of Education and Awareness (Idara-e- Taleem-o- Aaghai-ITA). He praised the commitment of the present government to focus on education which was a passport to progress.
The Dubai Cares CEO said that the organisation through $1.1 million project in Chiniot, Multan Muzafargargh and Rahim Yar Khan, had trained 400 teachers and renovated 185 schools. This project was completed in 2011. Under another project at least 300 schools were rebuilt and 600 teachers were trained. The project was completed in 2013.
