Education project demanded to end child labour.

MINGORA -- Social and education activists on Friday called for the start of an education project across Swat region for the children of poor families to end child labour.

During a function held at the Khpal Kor Foundation orphanage to distribute cheques of financial assistance to such children, the speakers said the government and NGOs should follow the initiative of the foundation to provide free education to girls, who were earlier involved in child labour.

They said the Khpal Kor Foundation in Swat supports 36 marginalised families by providing standard education to their children with other facilities to stop them from working in the houses of rich families.

The speakers said the children of the marginalised families were not only provided with free education up to 10th grade but monthly stipend, school uniform, shoes, books and transport facility were also offered to them.

Cheques distributed to children of Swat's poor families

'The basic aim of the activity is to end child labour and provide education to the children of poor families. This is a highly beneficial activity for the young girls of poor families in which they are taken away from the curse of child labour and are provided with free education in a private school with other necessities,' said Imran Khan, who works in the project voluntarily.

He said the talented girls would also be helped get further education after passing SSC examination.

The volunteer said the initiative should be replicated throughout Swat as the rate of domestic child labour was higher in Swat valley than other parts of the province.

Sanam, a fifth grader and cheque recipient, said she used...