Capacity Building program for Govt. Reviewers concludes

A five day Capacity Building workshop FLI held for Pashto group concluded yesterday in Peshawar. Ten scholars of Pashto language who came from various departments attended the program. The participants are going to contribute to standardizing the schools’ curriculum in Pashto language. This was the fourth and last edition of Reviewers Capacity Building which was designed and held by FLI. Earlier, the program was held for Khowar, Hindko and Saraiki groups in their respective areas.

Our languages face issues in their writing system which hinders their development. Therefore, one of the jobs FLI executes is to standardize the orthography of our regional languages aiming to strengthen the literacy in our languages. The said program was initiated for this purpose that was to improve the curriculum development. The participants of the program expressed that the training was helpful in learning how to standardize the curriculum development.

The Deputy Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education, KP Mr Abdul Akram attended the concluding session of the program and appreciated the FLI’s contribution. The Executive Director of FLI thanked the cooperation of Education Department-KP, DCTE, and all those who played their role in successful accomplishment of this initiative.

FLI, for the last 18 years has been striving to strengthen the languages spoken in the region. During this period, engaging with the relevant departments of the governments has been the most important activity of the organization for sustainable language development work. It is hoped that this journey will continue.