MULTAN:School Education Department, South Punjab, and United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve quality education access to the unprivileged here on Friday.
UNICEF Chief Field Officer Willbroad Nigambi and Secretary SED South Punjab, Rana Saleem Ahmad Khan, signed an MoU at Education Secretariat.
On this occasion, Additional Secretary Schools Agha Zaheer Abbas Shirazi, Deputy Secretaries, Saifullah Khan, Muhammad Faisal Shahzad, Nauman Ghani, Sabahat Ambreen, Tufail Ahmed, and Rubina Nadeem from
UNICEF witnessed the signing ceremony.
Speaking on this occasion, Willbroad Nigambi, Chief Field Officer UNICEF, said that according to UNICEF’s Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI), Pakistan is a known ‘environmental hotspot’, and a country where children are considered
to be at the greatest risk of the effects of climate change,
He informed that UNICEF was addressing the issue of climate change, promoting sanitation and continue its efforts
for providing easy access to quality education for children in flood-hit areas of Pakistan.
The delegation was apprised of the ongoing educational activities and development schemes under the SED South
Punjab and inquired about the problems. Secretary of School Education South Punjab Rana Saleem Ahmed Khan said
that education was the basis of peaceful, prosperous, and stable societies, equipping the region of South Punjab with
peace, education, welfare, and development was the motto of the Punjab Secretariat.
The SED will ensure the right of easy access to quality education with the technical support of UNICEF. The Secretary while informing the UNICEF delegation said that the members of the transgender community were among the backward sections of society and the doors of formal education have always been closed to them adding that the Trans Education Project has been launched to educate this community.
Meanwhile, under the Accelerate Learning Programme, the students of this school are given free education and are taught better lifestyle skills along with writing, reading, and basic numeracy.