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Minister, Ed UNICEF discus covid-19 initiatives

A UNICEF delegation led by its Executive Director Catherine Russell met with Minister for Education, Professional Training, National Heritage and Culture Shafqat Mahmood in Islamabad today (Tuesday).

They discussed initiatives taken during Covid-19 to ensure safe school reopening, continuity of learning and to mitigate the learning losses by the ministry.

Key challenges like suffering of learning levels, increasing of dropout rate, enrolment of out of school children focusing especially on girls also came under discussion.

The both sides also exchanged views on stunted growth of the children and launching of school meal program that may help to improve children's physical as well as mental health.

Source: Radio Pakistan

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