A Biden State Department grant opportunity offers tens of thousands of dollars to teach English to transgender youth in Pakistan.
in the trove of State Department notices of funding opportunities by Fox News on Tuesday, focuses on English-language education in the Islamist country as a way to enhance “people-to-people” ties between Pakistanis and Americans. Titled “Pakistan English Language Professional Development for Teachers, Students, and Young Professionals,” the grant offers $500,000 in total to eligible non-profits, non-governmental associations, and other organizations to teach English in the country.
Offered by the English Language Office of the American embassy in the country, the funding aims to “improve human capacity by creating a better educated and more skillful workforce.” Transgender people teaching at school in Pakistan. Excluded from society, many transgender people fall out of the education system at an early age. A few months ago, a school opened in Lahore, especially for people of the transgender community, who can catch up on their missed education there.
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