Vocational training of women stressed

District


Faisalabad:Imparting vocational skills to women is charity as talented people are a guarantee to the country’s progress and development.

This was stated by a renowned physician Dr. Muhammad Arshad Chaudhry and philanthropist Umar Daraz Ansari while addressing a ceremony at an industrial school running under social welfare society, Ghulam Muhammad Abad on Tuesday.

They lauded the efforts of the society for initiating vocational skill programs for women of the area.

They said that the majority of women generally spend their lives cooking and taking care of children at home, but now in the modern age, everyone should have to earn to combat inflation.

They also visited classrooms and saw the beauty parlor, dress making, computer, textile designing and other art work of the women.

General Secretary of the society, Muhammad Arshad Qasmi, said that the objective of establishing the institute was to train women in skills to enable them earn their livelihood.

He said that a computer textile course had been initi
ated recently and it received a tremendous response from women, adding that after passing the course, women would be able to earn thousands of rupees by working from home.