QUETTA: Unicef’s Country Chief Aida Girma, along with her team members, visited the Accelerated Learning Programme (ALP) Centre in Wahdat Colony on Monday and met children studying there. She also visited the centre’s computer lab.

On the occasion, Unicef Balochistan’s Education Specialist Palwasha Jalalzai gave a detailed briefing to the delegation on ALP centres.

She said the centres had been set up in different districts of Balochistan, in collaboration with Unicef and the Education Department of Balochistan, where free education facilities were being provided to school dropouts and children belonging to poor families of the province.

Speaking on the occasion, Ms Girma said that Unicef was working for promotion of education in Balochistan, adding that establishment and operation of ALP centres were making education accessible to every child. She praised ALP representatives for providing modern education to children in the centres.

Unicef Balochistan’s Chief Garida Scott Wholery, Unicef Education Officer Sehrish Nagi and Education Support Programme Manager Naqib Khilji were also present on the occasion.

Published in Dawn, November 9th, 2021