Parwaan celebrates success of youth social entrepreneurship
Islamabad:February 24:Parwaan National Centre of Excellence on Early Childhood Development organised a special open house event on Thursday ‘Parwaan ka Karawaan’ to celebrate the success of its youth social entrepreneurship and early childhood care and education programme.
Minister of State for Federal Education and Professional Training Muhammad Baligh-ur-Rehman was the chief guest on the occasion.
Addressing the ceremony, the Minister said that Parwaan National Centre of Excellence on Early Childhood Development was established by the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training in collaboration with Children's Global Network -Pakistan with the aim to provide accessibility of quality early childhood development opportunities to those children who do not have any access to such provisions.
Baligh ur Rehman said that Parwaan Pre-school - A School Readiness Programme, launched under Parwaan, aims to equip youth with the knowledge and tools in line with international standards to provide nourishment and education to children in their formative areas.
"The event was also attended by educationists, civil society members, early childhood development specialists, entrepreneurs, stakeholders and a large number of youth.
The programme addresses two distinct issues prevalent in Pakistan -lack of early childhood services for 3-5 years children and youth unemployment.
The programme envisions to establish 0.5 million ECD centres across the country.
The programme plans for phase-2, the Institute of Performing Arts performed a play highlighting the need to respond to the critical situation pertaining to early childhood education in Pakistan.
President Parwaan, Mehnaz Akber Aziz moderated the panel discussion on the topic, "Commitments and Innovation in ECD Pakistan - Need of the Hour."
The panellist discussed wide ranging issues and innovations pertaining to state of early childhood care and education in Pakistan followed by the launch of ‘Early Childhood Care and Development Country Report 2015-16 Pakistan.’
The report has given a detailed picture of the status of early childhood education in each administrative zone of the country.
A youth motivation session ‘Purposefully Alive’ was also held at the open house by motivational speaker Burhan Shah.
The session aimed to inspire individuals to work hard to achieve their goals.
An awareness campaign themed ‘5for5’ highlighting the importance of early childhood education for under five years children also kicked off at the event.
Later, the minister of state distributed certificates and mementos among the entrepreneurs and programme team members for recognition of their hard work and services.The news.
