Re: While Taliban blow up school USA helping educate Pakistani children
In helping educate Pakistan, the United States has made possible the following:
USAID programs ensured that approximately 900,000 school-aged children were able to attend classes.
Over 3,000 education administrators and 12,000 teachers were trained in management and teaching techniques to improve educational quality and increase student learning outcomes.
Through USAID, the U.S. government provided school libraries with approximately 100,000 books, math teaching kits, school bags, computer systems, and classroom learning materials.
With its adult literacy programs in the Islamabad Capital Territory and the Districts of Karachi and Rawalpindi, USAID partners taught over 2,500 women basic math and language skills. This has contributed to a 10 percent increase in the adult literacy rate between 2001 and 2008.
To improve teacher education and performance, USAID’s education program helped develop national standards as well as a licensing and accreditation system for teachers.
To provide transparent financial aid to needy Pakistani students, USAID provided technical assistance to establish six financial aid offices and created three new scholarship programs in Pakistani universities. Approximately 1,500 students were financially supported to pursue degrees in agriculture and business administration.
Continued support for 34 existing Pakistan-US collaborations between universities and higher education institutions has benefited over 1,400 Pakistani researchers and practitioners — 45 percent of whom were women. In addition, USAID developed 89 new research and training programs under a Pakistan-US Science and Technology program.
The Fulbright Program sponsored 182 new students, including 78 women. Currently, 75 Pakistanis are being supported by the Fulbright program as Master’s and Ph.D. candidates; nearly 30 percent are women and minorities. The program has a 98 percent return rate with 106 Masters-level graduates returning to Pakistan this year to join an increasingly expanding alumni network across Pakistani universities. The Fulbright Program enables graduate students, young professionals and artists from abroad to conduct research with the finest minds in the top universities of the United States on scholarships.
Maj TG Taylorwww.centcom.mil/ur
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why don’t you post the statistics that matter
in afghanistan you have
killed close to 20,000 civillians
cost of killing and destroying a nation $450 billion dollars
afghan war costing your american tax payers $300 million per day
We don’t need america and the sooner the pak army turns it guns on the real enemy of the state the US military the better for us all then you can get lost back to miami beach or alabama or where ever the hell you came from.