The largest school was inaugurated in Lamnian Village, located some 50 kilometers from main Muzaffarabad city. The school will educate 150 student in a safe, seismic compliant structure, among whom six orphaned children will get free education.
The school has been established under "Safe Schooling for Building Futures" - a joint partnership of P&G Pakistan and READ Foundation, which is the largest education organisation working in the area.
This school follows in the wake of overwhelming success of the first P&G-READ Foundation School in Muzaffarabad, which is now one of the largest school in Azad Kashmir. The P&G-READ Foundation School at Lamnian is housed in beautiful pre-fabricated classrooms equipped with syllabi-based modern teaching and learning resources.
It was jointly inaugurated by Deputy Speakers of the AJK Assembly, Sardar Farooq Tahir, P&G's External Relations Director for Arabian Peninsula, Yassin Attas, and Pakistan and P&G Pakistan's Country Manager, Qaisar Shareef. Total contribution from P&G Pakistan to this project to date exceeds Rs 17 million and with the new school, the total number of children who have been enrolled in this joint venture exceed 1250.-PR