SUKKUR:Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Sindh Rural Support Orgnization (SRSO), Muhammad Dittal Kalhoro along with Dr Pervez Tahir, a member, Board of Director-Rural Support Programme Network on Saturday lauded the government National Poverty Graduation Programme (NPGP).
During visit to village Murk Bhaiyo in UC Aakhero, Kashmore-Kandhkot, they met with leaders of community institutions and beneficiaries of NPGP/Ehsas Programme. LSO representatives and Women beneficiaries of NPGP shared success stories of their lives and livelihood.
Dr Parvez appreciated the efforts of women leaders and said that he was in the development sector for last 40 years and his dream become true by formation and strengthening of community Institutions through social mobilization.
They also visited the distribution point and witnessed the distribution of productive assets under the National Poverty Graduation Programme, where assets were handed over to selected ultra-poor households.
Talking the occasion, he said that SRSO was implementing National Poverty Graduation Programme (NPGP), in a partnership with Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF), with the support of Government of Pakistan and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), in Shikarpur and Kashmore-Kandhkot districts since 2019.
The overall goal of the programme was to assist the ultra-poor and very poor in graduating out of poverty on a sustainable basis, simultaneously improving their overall food security, nutritional status and resilience to climate change.