Benizir Income Support Program (BISP) is a model social safety net programme which aims to achieve SDGs of poverty reduction, zero hunger and women empowerment. This was stated by BISP Chairperson, Marvi Memon, in her welcome note, during an event ...
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ISLAMABAD: For years, Fatima would wake up in the morning and dream of going to school but her hopes for an education were crushed. Rather than joining her two brothers in school, from the age of five Fatima would set ...
Read More »BISP to register more deserving women this year, says Marvi
By: SALEEM SHAHID QUETTA: Chairperson of the Benazir Income Support Programme Marvi Memon has said that a countrywide survey will be conducted this year to register more deserving women so that they may benefit from the programme. Speaking at the ...
Read More »Improving lives: Empowering women, one stitch at a time
By Sarfaraz Memon SUKKUR: Gul Pari, a girl from a poor family, is dreaming big as she plans to establish her own designer boutique, after securing first position in stitching and embroidery from the Vocational Dastkari School run by the ...
Read More »Alarm over rise in underage girls’ sale into marriage
UMERKOT: Leaders of civil society have expressed grave concern over an alarming rise in the sale of minor girls into marriage in Umerkot, Tharparkar and Sanghar districts and demanded that the government implement relevant laws in letter and spirit to ...
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