While Taliban blow up school USA helping educate Pakistani children

[CENTCOM]

While the Taliban blow up school buildings and kill school going children, the United States has been helping build educational institutions and helping Pakistanis reach their potential. Did you know that today 20 million Pakistani children do not have access to any education? Literacy rates are extremely low (69 percent for men and 44 percent for women). Low attendance rates, inadequate infrastructure, and poorly trained teachers perpetuate these serious gaps in education, while limited government capacity, inadequate funding, poor coordination between national and provincial level governments, and security concerns add to these woes.

Did you know that despite these all the challenges, education is a top priority for Pakistani families? In the absence of an adequate public education system for all, the private sector and religious groups have stepped in to provide alternatives. Private sector schools now account for 33% of education institutions in the country. Would you not agree, that to reach their potential, Pakistanis must have access to quality education at all levels?

Through an extensive portfolio, the U.S. government supports the Government of Pakistan in its efforts to improve and expand basic and higher education and to provide all Pakistanis with access to quality education.

USAID: Links to Learning In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - YouTube

In helping educate Pakistan, the United States has made possible the following:
• USAID programs ensured that approximately 900,000 school-aged children were able to attend classes.
• Over 3,000 education administrators and 12,000 teachers were trained in management and teaching techniques to improve educational quality and increase student learning outcomes.
• Through USAID, the U.S. government provided school libraries with approximately 100,000 books, math teaching kits, school bags, computer systems, and classroom learning materials.
• With its adult literacy programs in the Islamabad Capital Territory and the Districts of Karachi and Rawalpindi, USAID partners taught over 2,500 women basic math and language skills. This has contributed to a 10 percent increase in the adult literacy rate between 2001 and 2008.
• To improve teacher education and performance, USAID's education program helped develop national standards as well as a licensing and accreditation system for teachers.
• To provide transparent financial aid to needy Pakistani students, USAID provided technical assistance to establish six financial aid offices and created three new scholarship programs in Pakistani universities. Approximately 1,500 students were financially supported to pursue degrees in agriculture and business administration.
• Continued support for 34 existing Pakistan-US collaborations between universities and higher education institutions has benefited over 1,400 Pakistani researchers and practitioners — 45 percent of whom were women. In addition, USAID developed 89 new research and training programs under a Pakistan-US Science and Technology program.
• The Fulbright Program sponsored 182 new students, including 78 women. Currently, 75 Pakistanis are being supported by the Fulbright program as Master's and Ph.D. candidates; nearly 30 percent are women and minorities. The program has a 98 percent return rate with 106 Masters-level graduates returning to Pakistan this year to join an increasingly expanding alumni network across Pakistani universities. The Fulbright Program enables graduate students, young professionals and artists from abroad to conduct research with the finest minds in the top universities of the United States on scholarships.

Maj TG Taylor
DET – United States Central Command
U.S. Central Command

 

[A.Muqeet khan]

thank you sir for ur generous way to help us but plz do tell us do u really think that for free ?

 

[MilSpec]

While Taliban blow up school USA helping educate Pakistani children[/url]

You just pissed off around 15000 pakistani members here...

 

[Emmie]

An old friend of USA is a terrible foe of USA now. Simple, no rocket science.

Really, those schools proved themselves very costly.... We lost $ 100 billion and 35000 valuable Pakistani lives, most important.

 

[unicorn]

USA has also sabotage the efforts of relief works inside Pakistan. By conducting illegal and immoral survey of vaccination in Abbotabad US have put thousand of lives in danger today.Who give them the right to do this?

 

[Leader]

thank you sir for ur generous way to help us but plz do tell us do u really think that for free ?

An old friend of USA is a terrible foe of USA now. Simple, no rocket science.

Really, those schools proved themselves very costly.... We lost $ 100 billion and 35000 valuable Pakistani lives, most important.

good efforts must be appreciated, however comparing itself by this centcom thing, shows that it aint for free...and going to USAID objectives page reveal it all that IT AINT FREE.

 

[Respect4Respect01]

they are blowing up our school, but you people are blowing up our people, our children, our houses.

 

[praful]

they are blowing up our school, but you people are blowing up our people, our children, our houses.

I am in agreement with you.

 

[crimemaster_gogo]

An old friend of USA is a terrible foe of USA now. Simple, no rocket science.

Really, those schools proved themselves very costly.... We lost $ 100 billion and 35000 valuable Pakistani lives, most important.

nobody trusts them or should i say nobody should make a mistake of trusting them.

 

[Rafi]

While the Taliban blow up school buildings and kill school going children, the United States has been helping build educational institutions and helping Pakistanis reach their potential. Did you know that today 20 million Pakistani children do not have access to any education? Literacy rates are extremely low (69 percent for men and 44 percent for women). Low attendance rates, inadequate infrastructure, and poorly trained teachers perpetuate these serious gaps in education, while limited government capacity, inadequate funding, poor coordination between national and provincial level governments, and security concerns add to these woes.

Did you know that despite these all the challenges, education is a top priority for Pakistani families? In the absence of an adequate public education system for all, the private sector and religious groups have stepped in to provide alternatives. Private sector schools now account for 33% of education institutions in the country. Would you not agree, that to reach their potential, Pakistanis must have access to quality education at all levels?

Through an extensive portfolio, the U.S. government supports the Government of Pakistan in its efforts to improve and expand basic and higher education and to provide all Pakistanis with access to quality education.

USAID: Links to Learning In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - YouTube

In helping educate Pakistan, the United States has made possible the following:
• USAID programs ensured that approximately 900,000 school-aged children were able to attend classes.
• Over 3,000 education administrators and 12,000 teachers were trained in management and teaching techniques to improve educational quality and increase student learning outcomes.
• Through USAID, the U.S. government provided school libraries with approximately 100,000 books, math teaching kits, school bags, computer systems, and classroom learning materials.
• With its adult literacy programs in the Islamabad Capital Territory and the Districts of Karachi and Rawalpindi, USAID partners taught over 2,500 women basic math and language skills. This has contributed to a 10 percent increase in the adult literacy rate between 2001 and 2008.
• To improve teacher education and performance, USAID's education program helped develop national standards as well as a licensing and accreditation system for teachers.
• To provide transparent financial aid to needy Pakistani students, USAID provided technical assistance to establish six financial aid offices and created three new scholarship programs in Pakistani universities. Approximately 1,500 students were financially supported to pursue degrees in agriculture and business administration.
• Continued support for 34 existing Pakistan-US collaborations between universities and higher education institutions has benefited over 1,400 Pakistani researchers and practitioners — 45 percent of whom were women. In addition, USAID developed 89 new research and training programs under a Pakistan-US Science and Technology program.
• The Fulbright Program sponsored 182 new students, including 78 women. Currently, 75 Pakistanis are being supported by the Fulbright program as Master's and Ph.D. candidates; nearly 30 percent are women and minorities. The program has a 98 percent return rate with 106 Masters-level graduates returning to Pakistan this year to join an increasingly expanding alumni network across Pakistani universities. The Fulbright Program enables graduate students, young professionals and artists from abroad to conduct research with the finest minds in the top universities of the United States on scholarships.

Maj TG Taylor
DET – United States Central Command
U.S. Central Command

Thank you Maj Taylor - we need to find the medium in our relationship again, the Tab's need to be convinced of the need for education.