KARACHI: The government of Japan will provide a grant of $1.1 million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for supporting Non-Formal Education (NFE) initiative to provide quality alternative education to out-of-school children and adolescents in Sindh. The NFEs centres will be established to provide access to quality alternative education for 4,500 children and adolescents (2,500 girls among them) in Ghotki and Khairpur districts. These NFEs will be established by UNICEF in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency, under the leadership Sindh School Education and Literacy Department’s (SELD) Directorate of Literacy and Non-Formal Education. Children and adolescents will get second chance to acquire quality learning through non-formal education modality using accelerated learning curriculum and textbooks approved by the government of Sindh. He said the JICA efforts in the education sector by supporting the directorate to achieve the targets of Sindh Education Sector Plan (2014-18) in areas on non-formal education and constructing state of art 52 permanent schools in different districts of Sindh.

Source: Pakistan Today April 03, 2018 15:42 UTC