Minister calls for more projects for betterment of women

KARACHI: The Sindh Minister for Women Development, Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto, has called for preparing more projects for the betterment of the women. She issued the directive to this effect while chairing a meeting here on Monday. The minister was of the view that such projects should be aimed at fostering women empowerment and to help resolve the problems that the women face.

She said that Benazir Bhutto always desired that women in our country should be empowered and imparted knowledge because an educated mother looks after the family well and brings up children in a better way. Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto was informed at the meeting that the Department of Women development was imparting training of baby childcare.

Such a training has been imparted in various towns of Karachi including those of Lyari, Shah Faisal, Gulshan-i-Iqbal and Kemari as well as in Hyderabad, Jamshoro, Khairpur, Badin, Larkana and Benazirabad (Nawabshah, it was further informed. The minister directed that more projects for the betterment of the women be prepared.
Source: Business Recorder
Date:7/21/2009