BEF Schools Across Balochistan
Community schools, fellowship schools and foundation-supported schools run through the Balochistan Education Foundation — reaching children in villages where a government school is out of reach, with a deliberate focus on girls' enrolment.
What BEF does
The Balochistan Education Foundation (BEF) is an autonomous body established in 1994 by an Act of the Provincial Assembly. It delivers education up to secondary level through public–private and community partnership models rather than by running government schools directly — placing a school where the community is, and contracting local teachers, organisations and individuals to run it.
This matters in a province where distance is the single biggest barrier to schooling. Balochistan covers 44% of Pakistan's land area but holds about 6% of its people, and 45% of children aged 5–16 are out of school — the highest rate in the country. BEF's community and fellowship schools reach settlements too small or too remote to justify a full government school, and its foundation-supported schools back existing local providers so that established classrooms keep running.
The three programmes
| Programme | Schools | Boys | Girls | Enrolment |
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- New Community & Fellowship Schools — the current cohort. Community schools (NCS) are opened in a village on community request and managed with local oversight; fellowship schools (NFS) place a trained teacher-fellow into an underserved settlement.
- Old Community & Fellowship Schools — the established cohort from earlier phases, still operating and reporting enrolment.
- Foundation Supported Schools (FSS) — existing schools run by an individual or organisation that BEF supports financially so they can enrol more children; established in FY 2025–26.
Where the schools are
| District | Schools | Boys | Girls | Enrolment | Girls' share |
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