325 students join US-funded programme

LANDIKOTAL: At an opening ceremony, Consul General Shante Moore welcomed 325 male and female students from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa who joined the US Embassy-sponsored English Works Programme on Tuesday.

English Works Programme is a Department of State-funded six-month programme that improves English proficiency, develops computer literacy skills and builds job market knowledge for motivated students with limited financial resources.

The English Works programme includes of 240 hours of instruction over six months. More than 27,000 Pakistani students have participated in these programmes in Pakistan since 2005, an example of the broad cooperation between the two countries.