Now, USAID handed over the buses to Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) at Islamabad Model School F-7/1. The USAID funded Pakistan Reading Project being implemented by International Rescue Committee (IRC) is helping improve reading skills of children across Pakistan. The mobile bus library is another step towards promoting a reading culture in Pakistan, he remarked. So far, these mobile libraries have distributed 53,479 books during these visits. Chief of Party for USAID, Pakistan Reading Project (PRP) Naeem Sohail Butt and FDE DG Hasnat Qureshi, signed the transfer agreement of mobile bus library programme.

Source: The Express Tribune November 17, 2017 04:17 UTC