ISLAMABAD: Minister of State and Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) MNA, Ms Marvi Memon Tuesday said that empowering the beneficiary women and pulling them out of extreme poverty was top most priority of the BISP.
Address during prize distribution ceremony of ‘Mera Chand Model School’ organized by ‘Mera Chand Welfare Trust,’ she said that BISP was providing financial assistance to 5.1 million families, who were contributing in improving their economic conditions with dignity and self-respect.
She said that under Waseela-e-Taleem program,BISP was providing education to beneficiary children of 5 to 12 years age in 32 districts of the country, said a press release issued here.
These children receive Rs 250 stipend per month with a condition of 70% attendance in schools. BISP aims to extend this program to the whole of country so that maximum number of deserving children may benefit from the facility of incentive based free education.
Stressing the promotion of education, she said educated population determined the development and prosperity of a country and no citizen should remain deprived of constitutional right to education.
Mera Chand Model High School focuses on adult literacy by providing free education to deprived men and women who failed to get formal education in their early years of age.
The illiterate and unproductive segments of the society are brought into the mainstream by equipping them with higher secondary education within a short span of two years thus providing them a launching pad for further education and income generation.
Chairperson BISP appreciated the tremendous efforts of the Trust for adult literacy and said that the institution had done a miraculous work within a limited time which proved its strong motivation and commitment to the cause of education.
She expressed her determination to promote the design of this model school in other regions and provinces of the country.
She urged the provincial governments to work on promoting the adult literacy.
She stated that the experience of Mera Chand Model High School might be helpful to the provinces in implementing the projects of adult literacy.
She appealed to the business community to direct their corporate social responsibility activities towards spreading adult literacy.
Chairman ‘Mera Chand Welfare Trust,’ Sarfaraz Bhatti addressing the participants said that besides free education to children, this institution provides dresses, books, registration fees of the Board and a monthly stipend of Rs 500 to them.
He informed that currently 129 students were enrolled in this school while 6500 students had already done matriculation from this school.
In the end, Chairperson BISP distributed prizes among the brilliant students and wished them for their bright future.
