{"id":44753,"date":"2018-01-16T19:52:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44753"},"modified":"2018-01-16T19:52:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:52:26","slug":"malala-fund-receives-700000-for-school-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44753","title":{"rendered":"Malala Fund receives $700,000 for school in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London, Jan. 16 (TNS):<\/strong> The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF), in cooperation with the Malala Fund launched by Nobel laureate and female education activist Malala Yousafzai, has donated US$700,000 to build a girls\u2019 school in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharjah-based global charity is funding the school project through its \u2018Girl Child Fund\u2019 in collaboration with the Malala Fund, local media\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>The school is being constructed in Swat Valley, Malala\u2019s home district, and will open its doors to 350 girls in its 11 classrooms once completed.<\/p>\n<p>The school is currently in the second phase of its construction, with the project due to complete in April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The donation was announced during an event in Oxford, London attended by Malala and TBHF humanitarian envoy Shaikh Sultan Bin Ahmad Al Qasimi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI overwhelmingly thank The Big Heart Foundation for believing in my dream of a world where girls can choose their own future path. With their support, the Malala Fund can provide education for girls in my hometown, Swat Valley in Pakistan,\u201d said Malala on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The donation covers half the project\u2019s financial needs and will be used to build classrooms, science and computer labs, staff rooms, principal\u2019s room, a reception area and playground facilities. The school will also have a library, laboratory, an activity hall, and accommodation for female teachers from remote areas.<\/p>\n<p>The funds will also partly cover the first two years of the school\u2019s operational costs.<\/p>\n<p>TBHF is a charity that aims to protect and enable vulnerable and marginalised children and their families, with primary focus on the Arab world, but it also extends support to other areas in most need.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, Jan. 16 (TNS): The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF), in cooperation with the Malala Fund launched by Nobel laureate and female education activist Malala Yousafzai, has donated US$700,000 to build a girls\u2019 school in Pakistan. The Sharjah-based global charity is funding the school project through its \u2018Girl Child Fund\u2019 in collaboration with the Malala Fund, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,491],"tags":[932,247,1978,2227],"class_list":["post-44753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-london","tag-international","tag-london","tag-malala","tag-malala-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44755,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44753\/revisions\/44755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}