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Lahore—A five-member representative delegation of UK based Department for International Development (DFID) visited the head office of Punjab Education Foundation on Friday and held a detailed meeting with the Managing Director Tariq Mahmood to review pace of progress on different public private partnership based programs of free education for the needy students in the Punjab.

Deputy MD-PEF Tariq Rafiq as well as Program Directors were also present on the occasion.

At the outset, Tariq Mahmood told that the PEF is playing an important role in the education-promotion. It is noteworthy that this foundation has also sponsored education of more than six thousand students in vast Cholistan desert; besides opening ten mobile schools for the nomads, there.

He said that PEF has taken a number of pioneering initiatives to ensure transparency, effectiveness and success of its educational programs so that desired results could be achieved according to the schedule. Besides, electronically storing 1.9 million students’ data in its main server, online payment system was also designed and put in place for monthly payments to school partners well in time.

He told that PEF has also encouraged and promoted girls education in the indigent strata as its schools are situated near to the homes of such communities. As a result of our efforts, girls’ proportion in our programs is 45 percent which shows their strong interest in learning, he added.

He pointed out that PEF has emerged as the symbol of strong support to the disfranchised communities for the education of their children. Program Directors also briefed the delegation about progress on their programs.

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