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Unicef gives 60 tents to Khyber schools

By Our Correspondent 2014-01-16
LANDI KOTAL: United Nations International Children and Education Fund (Unicef) handed over 60 tents to the Khyber Agency education office the other day to provide shelter to the students of the militancy destroyed schools in the region.

Agency education officer (AEO) Attiqur Rehman told reporters on the occasion that the tents would be given to schools in all the three tehsils of Khyber Agency on need basis to encourage students to continue their education.

He said that the tents would be distributed by the concerned assistant agency education officers.

Mr Rehman said that militant attacks had destroyed 65 government schools in Khyber Agency, badly affecting the schooling of over 20,000 children. `Students of these destroyed schools either had to abandon studiesor sit in the open,` he lamented The AEO said that most of the schools had been destroyed in last five years and the government could not initiate reconstruction of the damaged schools due to paucity of funds and fear of reprisal by the militants.

Meanwhile, hundreds of students and their parents in Bara Qambar Khel area of Bara tehsil have complained about continued absence of the teaching staff at Speen Dhand college.

They said that due to absence of college principal and other staff members, students of tenth grade could not send their registration forms to the Peshawar board for the coming matriculation examinations.

They appealed to the director education Fata, agency education officer and chairman Peshawar education board to take notice of the absence of teaching staff in the college.