FOOD for Education

Objectives

Project was designed with the aim to bring students back to school and revitalize primary education.

For this purpose, following were the key objectives of the project.

 

  • Increase enrolments in primary schools
  • Promote student’s attendance 
  • Reduce dropout rates
  • Enhance Quality of Education
  • Apprise the policy makers and general public on project

Summary

CPD implemented a short term project for the revitalizing of primary education. The project was sponsored by the WFP under its food for Education project being implemented in different districts of Balochistan. Project designed for a five months’ period was launched in April 2011 to June 2011.

Activities of the project were implemented in two tehsils of Naseerabad district Dera Murad Jamali and Tamboo, Naseerabad one of the canal irrigation district of Balochistan. It is located in the south-east of the provincial capital Quetta at the distance of 276 km. Being the canal irrigation area in the arid zone of Balochistan main livelihood sources in the Naseerabad are agriculture crop production and rearing of livestock. A large number of community members also work as daily wage Labour to earn their livelihoods. Due to large scale agriculture and livestock activity there is an increasing trend for employing the children as helping hands on farmlands. This trend has very badly affected the education of school going children. Working of children on farmlands and livestock farm has contributed towards high dropout rates especially in primary sections. This trend was further pushed upward by recent floods in the area. Community members who because of poverty were not in a position to afford sending their children to schools after the flood were left with no option but to employ the available child force in undertaking the recovery and rehabilitation activates.