Miraj Ali one of the Aga Khan Schools teacher and Saeeda Bibi Teacher Langland school Balach Branch attached with ECD Programme of Aga Khan Education Service (P) Chitral have been awarded with 2nd Anita Ghulam Ali World Teachers’ Day Award 2009 for Early Childhood Education (ECE) on April 6, 2010. This award ceremony was held at Aga Khan University –Institute for Educational Development Karachi attended by high profiles of Pakistan in the field of education. The awards with cash prizes was presented to these outstanding teachers for their exceptional performance as teacher and both of them were acknowledged as Living Legends and Icons in Education. They have won this award competing at Pakistan level

Miraj Ali is teaching in Aga Khan primary school Khuzh and has very rich experience of teaching to young children. He is one the most competent teachers of AKES, P working in this remote area with full commitment and enthusiasm. Ms Saeeda Bibi basically was teaching at AKS Breb but later on shifted to Chitral centre and joined ECD section of The Langlands School Chitral. She has attended a number of trainings and workshops on ECD with Aga

Khan Education Service (P) Chitral. She has been also very creative and innovative classroom teacher. She has always shown great dedication towards teaching and learning. Her classes always been lively and interesting. I congratulate to both of them for their outstanding performance and winning this award competing at Pakistan level. It is indeed a great pleasure for all Chitralis. I wish many more successes to both of them in the years ahead!

Core selection criteria for the Award

· Concrete evidence of innovative teaching practices deep rooted in local indigenous culture

· Professional excellence & intellectual enterprise - classroom environment

· Activism for school improvement initiatives

· Sacrifice for quality education and

· Active citizenship and holistic humanism

Supporters of the Award

· Aga Khan Foundation Pakistan

· Teachers Resource Centre

· Female Education trust

· Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) and others

--(Report by Mohammad Afzal Khan Kandojal Chitral, 14 April 2010.)