ISLAMABAD: Worker Welfare Fund (WWF) has established more than 150 schools in different across Pakistan to provide education to the children of industrial workers.
According to WWF Secretary Muhammad Qasim Samad Khan around 155 schools have been set up in different provinces to make sure provision of quality education to the industrial workers’ children.
The WWF is a government-run organization that works for providing low-cost housing facilities and other welfare steps including education, training, re-skilling and better health facilities for the welfare of workers.
Samad Khan said the WWF owned 34 educational institutions of secondary and primary-level in KPK. Some 53 schools in Balochistan, including three High Secondary schools, eight Secondary, 25 middle and 17 Primary schools.
Samad Khan said some 202,169 children of workers had been provided scholarships to attain higher education in different educational instates.
Moreover, the organization had established 23 Vocational Training Centers and 11 Technical Institutes to the workers’ children. He said more than 37,398 workers and their children had been trained in these vocational training institutes since their establishment, he added.
Samad Khan said the officials of the department were also taking other welfare steps for the workers and their families including marriage grants, death grant and vocational training, he added.
ADVERTISEMENT
