PEF to provide free education to 13 lakh poor children

Lahore, Chairman Punjab Education Foundation, Raja Anwar has said that the PEF has introduced cheaper model of education for poor children through public private partnership. This model has resulted in provision of free education to 13 lakh poor and hapless children in the schools near their homes and in this way these students are acquiring education in a respectable manner instead of wasting their time in the workshops and hotels, he added.

He stated this during a meeting with a representative delegation of partner schools of Multan division at his office today. Officers of Punjab Education Foundation were also present on this occasion.

Raja Anwar informed the delegation that Punjab Education Foundation is implementing a comprehensive program of raising the educational standard of its partner schools. He said that the role of partner schools is of supreme importance in the provision of free education to the poor children, therefore Punjab Education Foundation has also arranged library books and computer education to the students along with capacity building of teachers of these schools.

He further said that Punjab Education Foundation has launched a big program of free education in South Punjab for the elimination of poverty and ignorance in the region besides equipping the youth with the knowledge.

Punjab Education Foundation is an independent legal body established under an Act of the provincial assembly with its head office at Lahore.

The Punjab Education Foundation was established under the Punjab Education Foundation Act of 1991 as an independent govt body to encourage and promote education in the private sector operating on non-commercial/ non-profit basis.

The Punjab Education Foundation has been restructured for the promotion of education, especially encouraging and supporting the efforts of the private sector in providing education to the poor, through public private partnership.

The vision of PEF is to promote quality education through Public Private Partnership, encouraging and supporting the efforts of private sector through technical and financial assistance, innovating and developing new instruments to champion wider educational opportunities at affordable cost to the poor.