23 May 2009 Daily The Pak Banker
KARACHI`: Department of Continuing Professional Education, Aga Khan University plans to organize a short training course on Telehealth in the Developing World from May 25 to May 30.
According to an announcement the six day course will be held at the Department of Community Health Sciences, from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm.
Six makeshift schools are in Jalozai camp alone, three each for boys and girls which have been established to help bring some sense of normality to the lives of traumatised children.
“So far a total of 3,655 students have been enrolled in these schools”, an official of Unicef said.
“The number of male students at these schools is 2,795, with only 865 female students as many parents still fear that Taliban can target them,” he said, on condition of anonymity.
Similarly, around one thousand students have been put in the four schools set up by Unicef, Muslim Hands International, LAAS and Philonthrop at the IDPs camp in Sheikh Yaseen Town, Mardan. Hundreds of students are also attending schools set up in Swabi camp.
They are provided free of cost books, bags and stationary at these temporary institutions. The books are according to the syllabus being taught in the schools of NWFP province.
Dozens of local teachers and student volunteers tutor these students, while services of educated people from the IDPs are also being hired for the purpose.
Although, we are away from our homes and waiting anxiously for peace to return in our area, yet the life here is not all that gloomy because we have started going to schools, said Jahangeer Khan 16, from Saidu Sharif, Swat.
There are around 77,000 children of school age within the camps, while a total of 108,000 are living with host communities in different parts of the country, according to the UN.
Though, the steps taken for imparting education to these kids are commendable, yet there is much more to be done. The whole nation also owe the responsibility to cure nostalgia, the majority is suffering.
Sooner or later they will go back to their homes. What is needed, is to ensure congenial atmosphere to quench their thirst for knowledge in an amicable way.
Ismailimail 