PBM to employ 15,000 women in production units

Source: Dawn- November 17, 2008

 

ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: Pakistan Baitul Mal (PBM), through its ‘Production Units Programme’, would employ 15,000 women being trained at 150 vocational centres across the country.

Managing Director, PBM, Zamurad Khan, while talking to this agency, here on Sunday, said: “PBM will use the buildings of these vocational training centres as production houses in all the four provinces and those who have completed their training would work in these production units to earn livelihood.” He said this effort would not only provide relief to the domestic women, but also ensure opportunities to them to display their creative skills and enhance professionalism.

The vocational centres in various districts are providing free training to widows, orphans and poor girls in different skills.

He said PBM would also establish display centres in major cities to showcase the diversity of crafts from various regions prepared by these domestic women.

Pakistan Baitul Mal had planned to open vocational training centres in jails for women prisoners initially one in each province. In this connection, one vocational training centre is running in Haripur (NWFP). However other regions have informed that the establishment of vocational training centre was not feasible in any of their jail. Pakistan Baitul Mal was making a significant contribution towards poverty reduction through its various poorest-of-the-poor-focused services by providing assistance to destitute, widows, orphans, invalids, and other needy persons irrespective of their gender, caste, creed and religion through its ongoing projects of Food Support Programme (FSP), Child Support Programme (CSP), Individual Financial Assistance (IFA), Institutional Rehabilitation, National Centres for Rehabilitation of Child Labor (NCRCL) and vocational training centres (VTC).

Talking about the working of Food Support Programme (FSP) of Pakistan Baitul Mal, Zamurad Khan said there was a shortage of funds while Benazir Income Support Programme initiated by the federal government was more useful than the FSP to support deserving families.—APP

islamabad, nov 16: pakistan baitul mal (pbm), through its ‘production units programme’, would employ 15,000 women being trained at 150 vocational centres across the country. managing director, pbm, zamurad khan, while talking to this agency, here on sunday, said: “pbm will use the buildings of these vocational training centres as production houses in all the four provinces and those who have completed their training would work in these production units to earn livelihood.” he said this effort would not only provide relief to the domes- tic women, but also ensure oppor- tunities to them to display their creative skills and enhance pro- fessionalism. the vocational centres in vari- ous districts are providing free training to widows, orphans and poor girls in different skills. he said pbm would also estab- lish display centres in major cit- ies to showcase the diversity of crafts from various regions pre- pared by these domestic women. pakistan baitul mal had plan- ned to open vocational training centres in jails for women prison- ers initially one in each province. in this connection, one vocation- al training centre is running in haripur (nwfp). however other regions have informed that the establishment of vocational training centre was not feasible in any of their jail.pakistan baitul mal was making a signifi- cant contribution towards pover- ty reduction through its various poorest-of-the-poor-focused serv- ices by providing assistance to destitute, widows, orphans, inva- lids, and other needy persons ir- respective of their gender, caste, creed and religion through its on- going projects of food support programme (fsp), child support programme (csp), individual financial assistance (ifa), institutional rehabilitation, national centres for rehabilitation of child labour (ncrcl) and vocational training centres (vtc). talking about the working of food support programme (fsp) of pakistan baitul mal, zamurad khan said there was a shortage of funds while benazir income support programme initiated by the federal government was more useful than the fsp to sup- port deserving families.—app