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President Alvi stresses need for efforts with mosques to educate 28 million out of school childr
The president was briefed in the meeting about the Accelerated Learning Program. The officials told the meeting that over 70,000 out-of-school children in Islamabad were enrolled in the schools
Islamabad: President Dr Arif Alvi on Thursday stressed the need for making all possible efforts in collaboration with the mosques to educate around 28 million out-of-school children in the country.
Presiding over a meeting to discuss the role of mosques in the promotion of education, President Alvi said the mosques could be used for the promotion of literacy in the country.
According to the associate press of Pakistan, the caretaker minister for religious affairs, education ministers of Sindh and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, provincial education secretaries, and representatives of Auqaf and Religious Affairs departments attended the meeting.
The president was briefed in the meeting about the Accelerated Learning Program. The officials told the meeting that over 70,000 out-of-school children in Islamabad were enrolled in the schools.
The officials said that the Accelerated Learning Program model envisages the provision of five-year education within 24 to 30 months and enrollment of the out-of-school children.
The meeting was informed that the grown children, who were deprived of education, could benefit from the said program.
It was told the said program was flexible, focused and low-cost initiative which could also be implemented at the places provided by the community, religious seminaries and second shifts in schools.
Religious affairs minister Aneeq Ahmed said the federal government would extend all possible facilities to educate the out-of-school children. The participants of the meeting agreed to formulate a policy paper to utilise the platform of mosques for the education purpose. It was decided that draft of the policy paper would be submitted before the federal cabinet for approval.
