Basic Education Program

Community Development Foundation is presently running two projects on education in district Jacobabad. The major project is “Quality Education project Sindh” which is three year duration project with the support of Catholic Relief service CRS. The project started on 1^stJanuary 2014 & will end on 31^st December 2017. This is a pilot project focusing 12 government primary schools of union council Balochabad district Jacobabad. The objective of the program is to improve quality of education in rural areas of district Jacobabad. The second on-going project on Basic Education is “Basic Education Community School” with National Education Foundation (NEF). 20 VECS has been handed over to CDF for supervision in district Jacobabad, out of them 12 schools are in Tehsil Thull, and 08 Schools are in Tehsil Garhi Khairo. More than 640 out of school children are getting basic education from these schools.

Similarly CDF has completed four education related projects with the support of national & international organizations. CDF has recently completed a three years “Food for education project” in district Jacobabad on 31st of December 2013 with the support of Land O Lakes International Development. The basic objective of the project was to increase enrolment & decrease dropout ratio in girl’s primary schools of district Jacobabad. This was an incentive based project & every girls child attending 80% school in a month got one bottle of edible oil for three years.The success results of this project are as under:

Enrollment has soared 325 percent — from 12,000 girls to nearly 39,000.
Nearly all students 96 percent — are attending 80 percent of school days.
Provided clean drinking water to all urban schools and 138 rural schools in Jacobabad.
Distributed de-worming tablets twice a year to 36,000 students.
Over 25,000 students in 168 schools have received school supplies and benefited from nine new computer labs and 30 newly established libraries
At the Provincial Institute of Teachers Education, 67 teachers completed master trainer courses and then went on to train more than 470 other teachers.
To boost parent and community involvement in promoting girls’ education, the program has so far revived 154 School Management Committees, which will continue to advocate for girls’ enrollment after the program ends.
has worked with the government to promote education for girls, and government officials have
Responded by reopening 91 schools.