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Web News- April 2008
Long awaited Micro Finance program has been launched by the establishment of a Revolving Credit Fund of $10,000, to benefit hundreds of poor & needy women of District Bagh, badly affected by the devastating earthquake of October 2005. In first phase, during 2008, some 60 needy women would be extensively trained in Lamb Fattening activities; later they would be provided with soft loans amounting to some $166 each, to purchase lambs & ingredients of supplementary ration, for fattening purpose. It is expected that if some supplementary ration (the ingredients of which are quite inexpensive & locally available in the area) is administered to lambs for some 90 days, they can gain additional weight up to 75%; a considerable increase in the net sale price of the animal also.
Water shortage has always remained a major problem in most parts of Azad Kasmir through out the year, specially in drought seasons. But lot of opportunities exist to save that water which go waste & can be used for a number of purposes ie agriculture, livestock rearing, vegetable cultivation & orchard development. During rains, rain water from the top roofs of the houses can be successfully collected & stored and used later for a variety of purposes. Maqsood Welfare Foundation, in collaboration of OXFAM, has launched ‘Rain Water Harvesting Project’ in one of the Union Council of District Bagh, which was severely hit by earth quake in 2005. Water collectors were installed round roofs of 50 houses, One Rural Health Center [RHC], Two High Schools, One Mosque, costing Rs. 2,148,500/=,($35,221). This initiative will help almost 620 individuals, particularly women who are mainly responsible for fetching water for their family’s use. At RHC, not only the residential staff will be benefited by this project but at OPD where daily almost 90 to 100 patients come to get the treatment, are also beneficiaries of this project. At schools 470 boys, 346 girls and 37 staff members will be benefited by this project, where as at mosque indirectly all the village community will be benefited by this facility. The water thus collected / saved would be used initially for agriculture purpose, later by applying some techniques, could also be used for drinking purpose.
Construction of 2 KM Link Roads, from Dull to Dunn, Dull to Dahar Kharal Abbasian, and Form Nala Kharal Maldahyalan to Upper Kot Channala Has been Started. PC-1 for the next phase has been submitted to DRU for approval and hopefully within next week, the next phase of this project will be started. Construction of Vocational Centers, Waters Tanks, Solar Dryer at Kharal Maldahyalan, Kharal Abbasian, Basoti, Laryan, Hunslah & Chatrorah are the main components of this phase.
To fight the soaring prices of daily kitchen use items, especially vegetables, Kitchen Gardening Training Program has been launched for the members of Female Community Organizations in District Bagh & so for some 300 women has been trained to adopt this healthy recreational cum money saving activity. Vegetable Seed Kits, containing seeds of 10 summer vegetables, were specially procured from one of the leading Agriculture Research Organization of the country, which were also distributed among the ladies after the successful completion of the Training. It has been planned to train some 200 more females during May 2008. |
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