NCHD Life Support Programmes For Women Successful In 23 Districts Of KPK

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NCHD life support programmes for women successful in 23 districts of KPK

The National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) has completed its projects on skill building and income generating programmes for women, including kitchen gardening, poultry farming, livestock, cloth, cutting, knitting, sewing and beautician courses in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) and former FATA regions.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 1st Nov, 2018 ) :The National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) has completed its projects on skill building and income generating programmes for women, including kitchen gardening, poultry farming, livestock, cloth, cutting, knitting, sewing and beautician courses in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) and former FATA regions.

According to the progress report of Functional Literacy Program 2018 by NCHD, "A total of 1130 Functional Literacy Centers (FLCs) comprising of 98 percent of female FLCs from November 2017 to May 2018 have been set up in KPK and former FATA," The FLCs have been set up at 23 districts of KPK and three agencies of tribal areas (former FATA) including KPK districts of Lower Dir, Mansehra, Charsadda, Shangla, Abbotabad, Kohat, Hangu, Haripur, Swat, Swabi and Dera Ismail Khan.

The programmes aimed at enhancing woman's professional skills to earn suitable income that could improve her life style and family's financial conditions, the report said.

Initially, the report added that two skills, 'kitchen gardening' and 'Poultry Farming' were introduced by the head office whereas proper books and literature were also provided. The districts were given full opportunity to select one more programme other than the given options according to learners' need and interest, the report said.

It said that Literacy Team at Lower Dir actively developed linkages with multiple organizations and institutions to achieve fruitful results on income generating and saving skills. It added that most of the FLCs selected embroidery and tailoring. Although no budget was allocated for this new project still districts achieved excellent results by engaging resource persons from Government departments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other networks for imparting income saving and generating and life skills sessions.

With the financial and technical assistance of District education Department, NCHD and Agriculture Office have conducted two sessions on Kitchen Gardening and fruits; vegetables value addition, vegetable processing and preservation.

In the training sessions, various kinds of modern techniques shared with the participants through lecture, and practical demonstrations for making Jams, Pickles, vegetables pastes, and fruits juices was shared, the report added.

Income Generation and saving skills have been imparted in most of the FLCs at District Mansehra. NCHD team strived to develop linkages of FLCs with those organizations and institutions that are providing opportunities to buy the products developed at the functional literacy centers.

However, a few districts also selected livestock, beautician programmes, cloth cutting, knitting, sewing courses which were successfully completed with productive results, the report added.

The reported mentioned that in district Swabi there are 40 Adult Literacy Centres (ALCs) working in its two Union Councils (UCs). More than 85 per cent of the land is agriculture based and the people of the district are mostly indulging in agriculture and livestock. The training session pertaining to Livestock awareness was conducted where introduction of Livestock in Pakistan, Basic Tips of Keeping Livestock in Pakistan, diseases of livestock including foot and mouth disease, brucellosis, tuberculosis and Dehydration and heat stress, Anemia � theileria and Bracken Poisoning.