Globally celebrated every year on 20th November, World Children’s Day brings forward important issues and this year’s theme strongly sheds light on an imperative and prevailing issue; the need for equality and inclusion. It reflects ardently.
A FILE photo of the Footpath School. White Star
KARACHI: As all educational institutions were closed this week due to spread of the Delta variant, Syeda Anfas Ali Shah Zaidi of Ocean Welfare Trust, which runs the free-of-cost Footpath School in Clifton and Defence Housing Authority, is asking what to do about schools like theirs which keep street children off the roads.
“Quite frankly, the closure of the Footpath School is not keeping its pupils safe and out of harm’s way because they are roaming the streets and not safely sitting at home. The school itself was a safe haven for these children,” she pointed out to