Education
Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.
We provide quality education for children of poor communities and lower income groups especially in rural areas of Pakistan.
Education is the process of facilitating learning — the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits. It is not a luxury: in today's world it is a necessity, and for a poor family it is the shortest route out of poverty.
Countries across the world have signed up to the Sustainable Development Goals, in which Quality Education is Goal 4: to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all citizens. Pakistan, alongside other nations, is a signatory to the SDG Agenda 2030.
The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973 makes the same promise. Article 37-B holds that the State shall be responsible for the eradication of illiteracy and the provision of free and compulsory education up to secondary level, within the minimum possible time. Article 25A — the Right to Education — states that the State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to sixteen years, in such manner as may be determined by law.
A National Education Policy has been framed around four priority areas: reducing the number of out-of-school children and increasing school completion; achieving uniformity in education standards; improving the quality of education; and widening access to relevant skills training.
The figures show slow movement. The literacy rate stood at 62.3 percent in 2017-18, up from 60.7 percent in 2014-15 — 72.5 percent among men and 51.8 percent among women. Literacy rose in both rural areas (51.9 to 53.3 percent) and urban areas (76.0 to 76.6 percent), and in every province except Sindh, where a marginal decline was recorded.
Total enrolment across all educational institutions reached 50.6 million against 48.0 million a year earlier, and the number of teachers rose to 1.8 million. Even so, Pakistan ranks 150th out of 189 countries on the Human Development Index, with a value of 0.562. Policy on paper has not closed the gap.
Noor-e-Kainat Welfare Trust works to provide quality education to every citizen of Pakistan, without bias of sex, gender, race, culture or colour. The trust runs a school that provides free education to children from poor families, and supports fees, books and uniforms for students who would otherwise leave the classroom for good.
Figures cited from the Pakistan Economic Survey 2018-19 and the UNDP Human Development Report 2018.
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