Literacy is the foundation of learning.  Since 2013, the United States has improved Pakistani children’s reading skills by providing reading instructional materials to classrooms, training thousands of teachers in new reading instruction techniques, and encouraging schools to dedicate more classroom time for reading.

USAID is also investing in teachers by building or repairing 17 Faculty of Education buildings across Pakistan, and has provided over 3,100 scholarships under the Pakistan Reading Project so teachers can earn their education degrees. 

Every child deserves a high-quality education.  USAID is building schools in underserved communities like Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.  The United States believes societies thrive when girls and boys, regardless of origins or personal circumstances, have equal opportunity for education.  USAID supports efforts nationwide to address barriers that keep students from enrolling and staying in school, and is providing emergency education to communities displaced by natural disasters and violent conflict.

 

Through implementation of the United States Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls, USAID is committing $70 million and is working jointly with the Government of Pakistan and other partners to help educate and empower more than 200,000 adolescent girls across Pakistan.