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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)
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.
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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