A total of £288,000/- at the start, this partnership will prolong over a period of 24 months, providing a basis for rebuilding 10 Primary schools from tented settings to prefabricated settings, classrooms furniture (class room aid) providing opportunities to train teachers and more than 2000 children will benefit.

The 8/10 earthquake badly damaged basic social services infrastructure including education. The impact on education was devastating: as 6,083 schools were destroyed.

This is to help traumatized children come back to school and receive the education and care they need on continuing basis, by providing quality education through properly trained teachers and well equipped classes.

“Muslim Aid is working from last 10 years in the Relief and Development sector through local partner”, said the Muslim Aid Manager of the Overseas Program Department Hamid Azad while signing the agreement.

“After the EQ Muslim Aid are working at a larger scale for the development of Education reforms in the districts of Muzaffarabad, Bagh and Pooch and this is their first Mega Project in Pakistan’s EQ affected areas” he said.

Signing the agreement, Chairman READ Foundation Mahmood Ahmed said, “Education is necessary to bring change but without proper necessasities and resources for children change takes place very slowly, but these losses are irreparable”

He said, “READ has the strongest presence in AJK areas, Rebuilding all of the destroyed school and equipping them with all necessasities is a gigantic project and will take a few years and tons of effort to accomplish, but Read and Muslim Aid have laid the foundation stone for this project and would like to encourage other donors to contribute towards this cause whole heartedly”.

He also commented on Teachers Training and said,” Trained and Professional teacher would make it possible to provide quality education to children, hence will help them building their vision and character”.