AIOU to offer free of cost education to transgender community

Islamabad: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has introduced a programme to provide free education to the transgender community of Pakistan.

This step is an effort to improve the conditions of one of the most ignored sectors of the society.

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Allama Iqbal Open University is already running a number of programmes for the benefit of various relegated and defamed groups.

The vice chancellor of Allama Iqbal Open Professor Dr Shahid Siddiqui, in an interview to the media sources said that “we have numerous successful programmes running for disregarded and stigmatized section of the society. Now we have decided to introduce a programme for the betterment of transgender people of Pakistan. With the help of this newly launched programme, we expect to return their long-lost self-respect as well as dignity to them and make them responsible residents of the community.

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He furthermore added that the varsity recently launched a programme in Chakwal, Nankana Sahib, Thatta and Kharian, along with an objective of offering free of cost education to girls who have dropped out of school for one reason or another.