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Title of Project: Shamshatoo Schools Living Together: Education for Afghan Refugee Children and Pakistani Children in the North Western Frontier Province (Primary Schools) Summary / short description of the project: The overall objective of the planned project is to provide access to basic primary education to children, both male and female, of Afghani and Pakistani origin. The specific purpose of the project is the transformation of four Emergency Education Shelters in Camp vicinity, funded at the time of the Afghan Liberation (2001) by UNESCO and established by HOPE'87 and PCYO, into four full primary level schools, for girls and boys, with particular emphasis on imparting quality education for a total of 500 children of Afghani and Pakistani origin. To this end the existing four schools established earlier with three classrooms each were extended by the addition of two class rooms to each school. The construction of the additional rooms in each of the schools was completed in November 2004 and thus the existing schools enlarged. The new class rooms were furnished with school furniture and fixtures and the old constructions refurbished. Additional staff was selected to work along side the already existing staff. A regular capacity building of the staff particularly teachers has been continued through capacity building workshops conducted at the schools through resource persons hired for the purpose from time to time. The curriculum is also under constant review by the visiting resource persons and the principals with vital feed back from the teachers. The result has been a well integrated and adaptable curriculum addressing to the needs of children from different cultural backgrounds under the same roof. Regular contacts and interaction with the community, on a day to day basis through the community liaison officer and on a periodic basis through parent teachers meetings at the end of each term of education year has resulted in full and wholehearted participation of the females, evident in the higher number of female Students. The regular community involvement has helped significantly reduce the number of any school drop out that may occur due to a host of reasons. The data maintenance at the schools, including the student and teacher attendances, minutes of parent teacher meetings, observations of the resource persons conducting capacity building workshops and elaborate lesson planning by the teachers has helped monitoring and made the follow-up of progress as well as deficiencies easier. |
