Worldwide Education Fund of the Dallas Foundation (WEF), USA inaugurated its first Global ECD Centre in Booni Upper Chitral in Northern Pakistan on August 25, 2021 and opened the space for classes on September 1, 2021. Global ECD Centre is one of its kind in the region and will cater to 25 learners in the first phase.
The program envisions to promote Early Childhood Development programs in the marginalized communities around the globe where the educational systems have been unable to nurture such developmental needs of the children under the ages of 6 years, particularly in the mountainous communities of South and Central Asia.