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By Fazal Khaliq\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n MINGORA: More than 30 schools will be set up in the rural areas of the district under a three-year project to impart quality education to girl students and equip them with vocational skills.<\/strong><\/p>\n The schools will be established particularly in those areas where middle schools don\u2019t exist to facilitate the girl students, who have passed primary level.<\/p>\n The project will help them to stand on their feet by providing them vocational skills.<\/p>\n The project titled \u201cInstitutional support for participatory, inclusive and respective education (Inspire) II\u201d has been funded by Reach out to Asia (Rota) and being implemented jointly by Idea, Lasona and Care International.<\/p>\n According to the NGOs, 35 schools will be set up in the rural parts of Swat, particularly in those areas where middle schools don\u2019t exist. \u201cThe schools will work in the second shift,\u201d said Mohammad Mukhta Pasha, the project manager. He said that 37,315 persons would benefit from the project.<\/p>\n Elizabeth Mclaughlin, the country director of Care International in Pakistan, said that she was privileged to be in Swat as part of the team for a noble cause of educating and empowering girls.<\/p>\n Ambar Junaid said that history showed that Swat was a prosperous and developed state in every sector but unfortunately some factors pushed the valley into a mess and its education sector was affected badly.<\/p>\n \u201cThe dropout ratio of girls is much higher than boys in Swat and one cause of it is shortage of middle and high schools in the rural parts,\u201d she said, adding that inaccessibility, poverty, early marriages, social beliefs, security problems and man-dominated society were the main factors that barred girls from getting higher education.<\/p>\n Lasona executive director Azam Khan said that apart from imparting education to girls in those schools, they would also equipped with vocational skills and entrepreneurship development to empower them to earn livelihood.<\/p>\n Mohammad Ahmad, the executive director Idea, said that Swat experienced several tests in the recent past. \u201cNow after normalcy has returned, we have to make the region peaceful and prosperous by promoting education,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Appreciating the activity, District Nazim Mohammad Ali Shah assured the NGOs of full support. \u201cWe understand the importance of education and will take every step to promote it. Education is our first, second and third priority,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Fazal Khaliq\u00a0 MINGORA: More than 30 schools will be set up in the rural areas of the district under a three-year project to impart quality education to girl students and equip them with vocational skills. The schools will be established particularly in those areas where middle schools don\u2019t exist to facilitate the girl […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23,22,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}