Daily Times

Moawin Foundation – a non-profit organisation on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP).

Former chief of Naval Staff Admiral (r) Muhammad Asif Sandila accompanied by retired civil servant Hamid Khan represented Moawin Foundation in the MoU signing ceremony, which was signed by BISP Complimentary Initiative Sajid Baloch and Hamid Khan, witnessed by BISP Secretary Umar Hamid Khan and Admiral (r) Muhammad Asif Sandila among other BISP director generals.

Moawin Foundation is at present working in the field of poverty reduction and education. The core area of the organisation is to bring about a positive change in Pakistan by improving the quality of education in public sector schools and impart income generating skills to the young population for self-reliance. Moawin specialises in providing, Technical & Vocational Educational Training to enable the underprivileged community to be part of mainstream work force in the longer run.

As per the MoU, initially Moawin will run a pilot project for training of 500 BISP beneficiaries on the profiling criteria provided by Moawin, lead to expansion to other programme districts. BISP will share data of beneficiaries in the selected districts to Moawin Foundation as per Data Sharing Protocol of BISP. The secretary termed the partnership as, “Graduation through collaboration.”

Moawin Foundation is working with experienced old hands and I am sure that this joint venture will lead to a new era of public education sector development, he added.

Former Naval Chief, while briefing about the organisation said that public school teachers are the key to uplift the standard of education in this country. He said apart from students, Moawin Foundation has special focus on capacity building and training of teachers in public sector schools without interfering in administrative and academic matters. Moreover, on the other hand, it is a complete cycle of transforming generations particularly children for enrolment and retention to employment.

“We look forward to working together for collective national development and public educational capacity building,” he said.

Published in Daily Times, September 18^th 2018.