Mr. Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq, Director CHANGE in Education.

to the Sindhi businessman, the Sindhi Community, the entrepreneurs, you know organizations like
Citizens Foundation, people like Mr. Jahangir Siddique, people like Mr. Hussain Dawood. I mean you
know, they are the people that they have been contributing in the society through the philanthropic
activities, through education by creating jobs and by bridging the skill gap. Now, what the challenge,
challenge is that, you know you have got issues got to do with missing facilities. If you have got the
dream as a Sindhi person, if you got the dream to make Sindh proud, then the first thing that you need
to do is that you need to improve literacy, without literacy all these buzz words you know the Google,
the face book and the twitter innovation, entrepreneurship, opportunity, employment, environment, I
am sorry they do not make sense. Because without literacy the common citizen of your province cannot
make a sound judgement, how to use the right of vote and then what to talk about democracy.
So, now the challenge that we have is got do with the school, they are there. Eight thousand schools are
nonfunctional, remaining all schools are there. Now, altogether, we have 300,000 teachers working and
as I said approximately 48000 thousand schools are there. We have land and schools in district and
important of all teachers are available on payroll and they are getting salary. Let’s take the example of
district Ghotki. In district Ghotki, there are 2000 primary schools and monthly payroll of those primary
schools is 20 crore. So, if the district Ghotki is paying 20 crore rupees a month to the teachers of the
primary schools, 2000 teachers, that means that your government is not poor, your government is
paying the salaries. Now, the issues got to do with social mobilization, community mobilization, missing
facility, empowerment, commitment, passion, representation and having that commitment to the
cause, then checks and balances, teacher training then you know shelterless schools, then social
mobilization, enrollment enhancement. I mean, the constitution even at the district level in the field of
education is so comprehensive that if you Google it, there is a school management committee. The
committee is responsible for the school, head teacher is the head of that committee and it has got
legally 17 members, they come from the parental committee, they come from the communality within.
So, the schools in Pakistan have always been a community concept and the constitution and the
legislation at all exists. Ladies and gentleman, how we are going to show a commitment to the world,
we asked promising and scaling an illiterate nation. Already, I understand, I am in education, I am in
academia.
For the last two and half decades I have been scaling opportunity, achievement, excellence and
entrepreneurship through my award winning education system, root school system, which was founded
by my mother. My students, they reached the world, they reach so on so forth to the Guinness book
and then I realized, look this is the time to go back. Now, I have started social sector enterprise, it’s
called the Change in Education. I have taken up so far 24 government schools and I am trying to
promise a model which can ensure capability, sustainability and thus create the social impact. Now, we
are not together, for example district Ghotki is the largest district of Pakistan, which is the mother of
fertilizer, no district has such power. There are two plants of Fauji Fertilizer, there is Fatima fertilizer,
and there is Liberty power plant. But this whole industry’s collective social responsibility is now coming
together. So, I am now working is part of there corporate social responsibility initiatives. Look, the
government is going to do what they have been doing.
If you look at the literacy rates of Pakistan, from 1951 to 1981 literacy rose to almost 20%. From 1981 to
2010 the literacy rose to 57% in Pakistan as well. So the opportunities are there and now the advantage
of Punjab is that, there is lot of funding, there is lot of activism and lot of people are involved. So, I think
the real challenge is going to be public, private and donor partnerships and we must encourage public,
private and donor partnerships as well, because there is a lot of commitment by the world to Pakistan.
Pakistan is the member of the committee of nation. We are a member of United Nations. I do not think