Sindh launches first education programme for inmates’ children

KARACHI: The Sindh Government has launched Pakistan’s first-ever programme to support the education of convicted prisoners’ children.

The launching ceremony was held at Central Jail Karachi, attended by Sindh’s Minister for Education, Mines & Minerals Development, Sardar Ali Shah, and Minister for Prisons, Ali Hasan Zardari.

The program has been launched with the joint efforts of the Sindh Education Department, Sindh Prisons Department and Paigham e Pakistan, for providing free education from Primary to University, which will help the children of 4,684 convicted prisoners imprisoned in Sindh prisons from primary to university.

In the first phase, admission letters have been issued to 100 children while data of 2638 children has also been collected. Under which they will be given admission letters in consultation with their family.

According to the provincial education minister, it is the first model in the world to help the children of prisoners get education from school to university.

Under this programme, the data of the children of the prisoners is being taken, based on which more than 10,000 children will be helped to get education from school to university.

The children of prisoners will be able to select public or private school or university.According to Minister of Prisons Sindh Ali Hassan Zardari, the programme will also help to learn the education and skills in juvenile prison.

There are 14 convicted children in Sindh while 56 children are living in jail with their mothers.

According to the Paigham e Pakistan Organizer Professor Mohammad Miraj Siddiqui, the program will provide microfinance of up to Rs.

It should be noted that there are 24,000 prisoners in Sindh prisons, of which 4102 are convicted, while 582 are prisoners of death.