Day: September 15, 2015

Young entrepreneur becomes ray of hope for Swat women

By Fazal Khaliq  MINGORA: During the three years of militancy, when there was no ray of hope for the traumatised widows and orphan girls in Swat, Shama Khalilur Rehman, a young entrepreneur, came forward to not only rehabilitate them but also help them to stand on their own feet. She opened a vocational centre in Swat in 2009 and motivated the needy women to learn skills and earn their livelihood in a respectful way. She said that she set up the centre as she could not see the suffering of the poor women, whose spouses were killed during the...

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NGOs join hands to educate deprived girls in Swat

  By Fazal Khaliq  MINGORA: More than 30 schools will be set up in the rural areas of the district under a three-year project to impart quality education to girl students and equip them with vocational skills. The schools will be established particularly in those areas where middle schools don’t exist to facilitate the girl students, who have passed primary level. The project will help them to stand on their feet by providing them vocational skills. The project titled “Institutional support for participatory, inclusive and respective education (Inspire) II” has been funded by Reach out to Asia (Rota) and...

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