PESHAWAR, July 1: Low literacy rate is one of the main reasons behind the slow pace of development in Pakistan, Dilhaori Weerasooriya, the wife of Sri Lanka’s high commissioner to Pakistan, has said.
During here visit to a women’s literacy centre of the National Commission for Development in Bissian, Balakot, with a 10-member delegation of educational experts from Islamabad, she said social mobilisation could bring a change for convincing women to enrol in such centres.
“The ORS campaign of the NCHD will enable mothers to save their children from falling prey to Diarrhoea as the commission’s workers teach them how to prepare ORS in home,” she said.
She said the establishment of 500 transitional schools by the NCHD in Mansehra district was a tremendous service to restore educational activities as it would enable children to save their session.
She promised support for the literacy, primary education and ORS campaigns.
