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Govt vows more efforts to make youth training project successful
Islamabad:May 17:Special Assistant to Chief Minister for Youth Affairs Abid Bhayo said on Tuesday the government had been establishing youth centres in each district of the province to provide career and education counselling, technical education and other facilities to the youngsters.
He was speaking at a youth festival jointly organised by three civil society organisations – the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (Piler), the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) and the Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) -- in collaboration with Unicef at the auditorium of the National Museum of Pakistan.
The festival is part of the three-year Unicef project called the Social Cohesion & Resilience Programme being implemented in Karachi’s three rural sub-divisions, Gadap, Bin Qasim and Keamari, as well as in the districts of Badin and Jacobabad.

Bhayo said the government had been working on the provision of rights and facilities to the youth. “Though the provincial government is facing education and health challenges, I assure you that the Sindh government would help to take this project forward.”

He pointed out that the government had initiated various programmes for the youth, including career counselling, providing technical education and connecting youngsters with organisations.

Under the project that will end on June 30, the government has trained 88,000 youths in technical skills all over the province.

Speaking on the occasion, Karamat Ali, executive director of Piler, urged that the youth should be provided opportunities to move forward. He said that due to this non-formal education project, students in backward areas had put in efforts to learn. He said the learning centres had yielded good results.

He stressed the need for resilience and cohesion in Sindh because people from other provinces came to the province to find jobs, and the influx also created many social problems.

According to the Piler representative, the interests of local people of Sindh were not protected in government policies.

“In 2010, the parliament inserted Article 25-A in the constitution, which ensures compulsory education to the children of ages between five to 16 years. But today more children are out of schools than in 2010.” He said it was a responsibility of the state to provide education to all children, and every member of parliament and government employees should first read Pakistan’s constitution. He said malnutrition in Sindh was acute as compared with other provinces and it was resulting in the birth of a large number of stunted children. “We have to mobilise people and a people’s manifesto should be prepared.”

Faisal Uqaili, an official from the education department, said there were 45,000 government schools in the province and they were facing many problems. “In three months, we have successfully opened over 2,000 schools out of 4500 closed schools,” he said.

Mohammad Akram, education officer from Unicef, said the main purpose of the three-year non-formal education programme was to promote peace and engage the youth. He said youths were engaged in capacity building so they could play their role in bringing positive change to society.The news.
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