UNICEF facilitate less fortunate Jawzjan children get education

KABUL (Pajhwok): Some children involved in hard labour in Shiberghan City, the capital of northern Jawzjan province, would be covered under a special education and training programme by the next one month, official said on Wednesday.

Engineer Amanullah Amin, the provincial director of ACTED, said the Swift Children Protection Programme would be lunched in coordination with the governor house, Social Affairs Department and with the financial assistance of United Nation Children’s fund (UNICEF).

Amin said this programme will cover orphan children, disabled children, less fortunate children and others who were left out of education.

Information and Cultural Affairs Director Mawlavi Saifuddin said that the program will have positive impact on children without guardians or labored children.

The wars of the past years have had devastating effects on our community and deprived orphanage and less fortunate children to stay away from schools, Mutasem added.

Safiullah, 12, is one of such children who lost his father while serving in police, selling plastic bags in Sheberghan city.
Safiullah said: “Me, my mother and my smaller sister live with my uncle, I sell plastic bags and my mother washes clothes in peoples’ houses to feed ourselves.”

Safiullah, who attended the third grade and left school when he lost his father, is very eager to resume his education.
ACTED wants to launch its first vocational educational program with financial assistance of UNICEF in Jawzjan province, while no survey has been launched to show the exact number of labored children in the province.

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