Our Correspondent
KHYBER AGENCY
The Mansha Education Society on Tuesday asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor and Khyber Agency political agent to construct a building for a school in Bara tehsil where free education was being imparted to the poor girls.
Talking to this scribe, Mansha Education Society Director Humaira Khan said that her organisation was striving to provide education to the girls in the underdeveloped areas.
She said the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) lagged behind in all fields, particularly the education sector.
“The education institutions, hospitals, roads, basic health units and other necessary infrastructure were destroyed in military operations against the militants in Fata,” she added.
She asked the government to repair the damaged schools to increase literacy rate and to provide education opportunities to the girls in the tribal areas.
“The education ratio among the boys and girls is very low in Khyber Agency that has been in the grip of militancy in recent years. Militancy and subsequent military operations have dealt a deadly blow to the education sector in Bara,” she said, adding that many schools were bombed in Bara that were ye to be rebuilt.
She added though she belonged to Nowshera district, she preferred to work in Khyber Agency to raise awareness among the local people about the importance of education.
“We are providing free education to children in a rented house in Alamgudar area, but we find it difficult to pay the rent as we are short of resources,” she said
Humaira Khan said a tribesman donated an eight kanal plot of land for the establishment of the school, but her organisation didn’t have enough funds to construct it.
She maintained that they enrolled girl students at her school last year.
“Some 370 girl students have been enrolled at the school being run by the Mansha Education Society. We are providing free of charge education to the children,” she said.
Humaira Khan asked the government and the political administration to provide transport facility to teachers coming for duty from Peshawar to Bara.
She asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor and the Fata Secretariat to construct a building so that she could continue to provide education to the girls.
