Promotion of regional harmony: Sharmila calls for inter provincial exchange of youth delegations
KARACHI (February 01 2010): Sharmila Farooqui, Adviser to Chief Minister Sindh, has called upon more inter provincial exchange of youth delegations to promote regional harmony and cultural of different provinces among youths of the country.
Sindh provincial minister visited annual retreat workshop of Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI), a non-government organization (NGO) held at PDI House in DHA Phase V on Sunday. The three-day workshop was opened on January 29 to January 31.
PDI delegations, from Khuzdar, Quetta, Thatta and Karachi attended three-day annual retreat workshop. Eminent scholars and social scientists, Nasser Memon, Hussain Tawawalla, Founding Partner and Director Development EBDM, Jamal Mustafa Shoro, PDI Director Sikander Brohi, Ishaq Sommro and Programme Manager Altaf Shaikh and other PDI Programme Managers, who were leading different projects, especially in Sindh Thatta district and in Balochistan districts of Khuzdar and Quetta, also addressed the workshop participants.
Sharmila Farooqui lauded the efforts of PDI for providing platform to youths of the country to enhance their leadership role and to promote cultural awareness among the different federation units, youths and especially among the girls.
She further said that PPP Sindh-led government has announced different projects in the province for the youths. She added that for poor families, PPP government had launched Benazir Bhutto Income Support programme at country level and distributed lands among landless peasants especially landless women in different districts of the Sindh
PDI Director, Sikander Brohi said that PDI is also providing legal assistance to landless farmers of the country who received lands under the scheme launched by the Sindh government to distribute lands among women landless peasants in different districts of Sindh. He also highlighted the role of PDI workers who carried out their relief operation in calamity hit areas of Balochistan, Ziarat district.
PDI Director further said that PDI mission is to promote participatory, pro poor, environment friendly, sustainable and gender balanced development for creating equal opportunities as well as benefits for all.
Sikander Brohi said that the prime objective of PDI was to mobilize and organize the local communities to empower them and to take steps for their equal and active participation in the development process. He pointed out that PDI held community based participatory research, information and knowledge sharing and networking to strengthen the civil society partnership and alliance building for participatory and sustainable developments.
Moreover, Sindh Advisor to Chief Minister visited the embroidery stall exhibited by PDI Balochistan Programme Women Empowerment, Sumera Baloch and her team in the workshop.
Sharmila Farooqui also watched the documentary movie "Outside the Oil Fence Life in Black and White' produced by PDI with the support of Oxfam GB. In the film documentary, PDI highlighted the miseries faced by people of the Sindh in oil and gas producing districts.-PR
KARACHI (February 01 2010): Sharmila Farooqui, Adviser to Chief Minister Sindh, has called upon more inter provincial exchange of youth delegations to promote regional harmony and cultural of different provinces among youths of the country. Sindh provincial minister visited annual retreat workshop of Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI), a non-government organization (NGO) held at PDI House in DHA Phase V on Sunday. The three-day workshop was opened on January 29 to January 31. PDI delegations, from Khuzdar, Quetta, Thatta and Karachi attended three-day annual retreat workshop. Eminent scholars and social scientists, Nasser Memon, Hussain Tawawalla, Founding Partner and Director Development EBDM, Jamal Mustafa Shoro, PDI Director Sikander Brohi, Ishaq Sommro and Programme Manager Altaf Shaikh and other PDI Programme Managers, who were leading different projects, especially in Sindh Thatta district and in Balochistan districts of Khuzdar and Quetta, also addressed the workshop participants. Sharmila Farooqui lauded the efforts of PDI for providing platform to youths of the country to enhance their leadership role and to promote cultural awareness among the different federation units, youths and especially among the girls. She further said that PPP Sindh-led government has announced different projects in the province for the youths. She added that for poor families, PPP government had launched Benazir Bhutto Income Support programme at country level and distributed lands among landless peasants especially landless women in different districts of the Sindh PDI Director, Sikander Brohi said that PDI is also providing legal assistance to landless farmers of the country who received lands under the scheme launched by the Sindh government to distribute lands among women landless peasants in different districts of Sindh. He also highlighted the role of PDI workers who carried out their relief operation in calamity hit areas of Balochistan, Ziarat district. PDI Director further said that PDI mission is to promote participatory, pro poor, environment friendly, sustainable and gender balanced development for creating equal opportunities as well as benefits for all. Sikander Brohi said that the prime objective of PDI was to mobilize and organize the local communities to empower them and to take steps for their equal and active participation in the development process. He pointed out that PDI held community based participatory research, information and knowledge sharing and networking to strengthen the civil society partnership and alliance building for participatory and sustainable developments. Moreover, Sindh Advisor to Chief Minister visited the embroidery stall exhibited by PDI Balochistan Programme Women Empowerment, Sumera Baloch and her team in the workshop. Sharmila Farooqui also watched the documentary movie "Outside the Oil Fence Life in Black and White' produced by PDI with the support of Oxfam GB. In the film documentary, PDI highlighted the miseries faced by people of the Sindh in oil and gas producing districts.-PR