Primary education was ignored in the past and got little funding,'' admits Ejaz Malik, director of Primary Education in Balochistan. Today, it is the focus of both government and NGO efforts. I have seen many women completely transform themselves through education. They are unrecognisable after five years of schooling,'' observes activist-educationist Rehman. Balochistan's PEDP is among the country's biggest education projects.
Education is a good thing.
Schools are necessary for us,'' acknowledged an old man interviewed by film-maker Mushtaq Gazdar last year for a documentary on the project.