ISLAMABAD, Aug 21 (APP): A total of 210,396 women of low income group have so far completed their vocational training from 160 Women Empowerment Centres (WECs) being run by Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal while 13,231 trainees were currently getting training from these centres.
According to official document, WECs were providing free training to widows, orphans, poor girls in different skill including drafting, cutting, sewing, knitting, hand & machine embroidery, interior decoration, beautician, cooking, tie & dye, glass painting, computers, photocopiers, printers, and use of office equipment according to the requirement. Training emphasized on income generating activities. Low-income group of women/girls were being trained in two shifts.
PBM has planned to have at least one Vocational Dastkari School in each district.
PBM was paying Rs 8,000 to the families having one school/college/ university going female orphan and Rs 12,000 to the families having two or more school/college/university going orphans under orphans and widows support programme (OWSP).
Some 100 families with orphan girls have been enrolled from each province/region initially on the basis of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) poverty score card. Until the quarter ending on March 2021, Rs 6,672,000 have been distributed among 244 families.