“Studying in school is helping me a lot, especially in mathematics. It helps with accounting and to do proper records.” Yashwa is 15 years old and lives in Lahore, Pakistan. Six mornings a week, he studies at the the non-formal education center with his teacher Iqra Akbar to improve his reading and mathematics skills. In the afternoons, Yashwa works as an upholsterer in a furniture business.
His days are long but he enjoys learning. If it was possible, he would prefer to go to school full time because he can’t learn at work what he learns in school.
Non-formal education centers have been an education lifeline for hundreds of thousands of children in Punjab. Implemented by UNICEF Pakistan and funded by GPE, 1,000 non-formal education centers, each with one teacher, have been established under the TALEEM program, enrolling 37,000 children between the ages of 5 and 18 in one year.
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