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Chairman's United Kingdom
visit
Specialist engaged for KEF
11th KEF Board of Trustees Meeting
Quest for support
10th KEF Board of Trustees Meeting
Registration of KEF as a charity in United States
 Chairman's
UK visit Chairman KEF paid a visit to UK for fund raising and
publicizing KEF. Dedicated efforts by the host and ethnic communities from
UK have continued to generate funds for
Phakowal project.
Specialist
engaged for KEF Mrs. Rashid Anwar Khan, a specialist in English
language is now a part-time consultant for KEF. Her instructions take the
form of workshops and classes which are improving communication and
English language skills of the ITE trainees & PVPS teachers.
KEF
Board of Trustees Meeting Eleventh half yearly meeting of the
Board of Trustees was held on December 13, 2003 in Rawalpindi. Trustees
along with the architect and design engineers visited the
project site at Phakowal and were satisfied with
the construction work. The Annual Audit Report of the Foundation and PVPS
(2002-2003) was also approved by the trustees.
Quest
for support Chairman Kashmir Education Foundation had fruitful
meetings with many organizations, individuals and people. These included
Mrs. Zubaida Jalal, Federal Minister for Education, Mr. Nasim Ashraf,
Chairman Commission for Human Resource Development and Dr. Haroona Jatoi,
Joint Education Adviser (Planning Wing), Ministry of Education. Many
included those listed above have promised to extend their support to KEF.
KEF
Board of Trustees Meeting Tenth half yearly meeting of the
Board of Trustees was held on June 21, 2003 in Rawalpindi.
Registration
of KEF as a charity in United States After being registered as
a charity in Pakistan, Azad Kashmir and United Kingdom, KEF was registered
as a charity in United States. As a result of this major success, all
donations from United States will be exempted from Tax. The details of the
registration are:
Tax Exemption Number: 30-0047316
KEF Inc.
P.O. Box 930113
Norcross, GA 30003-0113
USA
2002
9th KEF
Board of Trustees Meeting
Approval of New ITE/Hostel Project
Audit of KEF/PVPS/PVITE
Meeting with Federal Minister of Science and Technology
Meeting with President Khushali Bank
Chairman's visit to UK
8th KEF Board of Trustees Meeting
Adoption of AJ&K Government Schools
Appointment of Research Associate
Income Tax Exemption
Newsletter
KEF
Board of Trustees Meeting Ninth half yearly meeting of the
Board of Trustees was held on December 14, 2002. Important policy matters
were discussed. Representative of Auditors was invited to brief the board
on new methods of keeping accounts. Chairman KEF briefed the participants
of developments in KEF during the last five month.
Approval
of New ITE/Hostel Project Ministry of Women Development, Social
Welfare and Special Education has approved Government grant of Rs. 10.376
million the construction of new Institute of Teachers Education (ITE) with
a hostel of 50 students at Phakowal (Rawalpindi).
More Information about project at Phakowal
Latest Progress
Report
Audit
of KEF/PVPS/PVITE Audit teams from Massers Ford, Rhodes,
Robson, Morrow, Chartered Accountants completed audit of KEF Head Office,
PVPS and PVITE accounts for
the year 2001-02.
Meeting
with Federal Minister of Science and Technology Chairman KEF
held meeting with Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, Federal Minister of Science
and Technology, to expedite the process of setting up GCSE/A Level
Examination Board at the Agha Khan University.
Meeting
with President Khushali Bank Chairman KEF held meeting with Mr.
Ghalib Nishtar, President Khushali Bank to discuss financial support by
the Bank for the ITE trainees' expenses on easy terms.
Chairman's
visit to UK Chairman KEF proceeded to UK on 23 June 2002 to
participate in fund raising campaign being organized by KEF(UK).
KEF
Board of Trustees Meeting 8th Annual Board of
Trustees Meeting was held on May 27, 2002 in Rawalpindi. The Board approved the annual audited accounts
for 2000/2001 and budget for next financial year (2001/2002) and
appreciated the progress made so far by the Foundation. The Trustees also
paid visit to the site of the new project in village Pakhowal, located 30
kilometers from Rawalpindi. Nearly 6 Acres of land has been bought by the Foundation.
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Adoption
of AJ&K Government Schools To use PVPS and PVITE as a resource center
to raise the standard of other school in AJ&K, an offer was made to AJ&K
Government adopt four school within close proximity of Rawalakot to help
them improve their quality of education. The Government has agreed to this
offer in principle. Modalities and financial implications are being worked
out.
Appointment
of Research Associate With the good offices of National Institute of
Psychology (NIP), Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Ms Shaista Waqar, a
psychologist, has been appointed as Research Associate for KEF. She will
work under the supervision of NIP. Important projects to be undertaken
are:
a) Revision\Modification of APID
tests.
b) Validation test for students of PVPS
c) Student counseling
d) Conduction of seminars for teachers on the psychological aspects of
child's education
Income
Tax Exemption The Foundation has been granted Income Tax
Exemption for three years (January 2002 - December 2004) by the Regional
Commissioner of Income Tax and Wealth Tax, Islamabad under Section 47
(1)(d) of Income Ordinance.
Newsletter
First issue of the Newsletter containing important events of KEF
(Pakistan), KEF (UK), PVPS and PVITE was published in January 2002. It is
planned to issue the newsletter regularly on half yearly basis from the
year onward.
2001
Formation of Alliance of Quality Education
KEF Board of Trustees Meeting
Chairman's visit to UK
Registration of KEF website on major internet search engines
New Project
Formation
of Alliance of Quality Education KEF and three other charitable
educational NGOs have formed an umbrella organization namely Alliance of
Quality Education (AQE) to provide a platform for coordination of their
efforts for quality education schools in backward areas. AQE, whose
membership is open to other educational NGOs having similar objectives,
presently comprises KEF (Pakistan), Mianwali Education Trust (Islamabad),
M.H. Sufi Foundation (Lahore) and Agahi Trust (Mansehra). AQE has its head
office in Islamabad and is working in collaboration with Asia Foundation
and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) of UK.
KEF
Board of Trustees Meeting Annual Board of Trustees Meeting was held on
June 23, 2001 at Rawalpindi. The Board approved the annual audited
accounts for 2000/2001 and budget for next financial year (2001/2002).
Chairman's
visit to UK Chairman KEF, Major General (Retired) M. Rahim Khan, paid
a visit to United Kingdom from 17 May to 11 June. He inaugurated the
designated office of KEF (UK) in
Bradford, generously donated and equipped by Haji Mussadhik Hussain. He
also visited London, Luton, Bradford, Leeds, Manchester, Bxirmingham and
Glasgow to attend various functions organized by KEF (UK) and appeared on
radio, TV and press interviews to create awareness and support for KEF.
The visit was a success. Ten core groups of volunteers were organized in
various cities for the support of KEF objectives and activities. UK
Trustees are confident of raising enough funds to set up a second KEF
school in a rural area near Rawalpindi.
Kashmir Education Foundation has been registered in
major search engines on the internet including Yahoo!,
Google, Lycos,
AoL and dmoz
Kashmir Education Foundation has decided that the
next project of Kashmir Education Foundation will be a primary school in
one of rural areas of Rawalpindi division.
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2000
Registration of KEF as a charity in UK
Registration
of KEF as a charity in UK
Kashmir Education Foundation has been registered as
a charity in United Kingdom ( Registration Company No: 3754243 & Charity No. 1082299)
on 5th September, 2000 with a separate Board of Trustee and Haji Mussadhik
Hussain of Bradford as its Chairman. The Foundation is
already registered in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir.
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