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HASHOO Foundation organizes two week summer camp for School Children

Chitraltimes Report

CHITRAL: Certificates were awarded among the participants of the summer camp in a ceremony held in Human Development Resource center of Hashoo Foundation Chitral in Balach. Assistant Coordination officer, Miftahuddin was the chief guest on the occasion. Hashoo Foundation had organized a two week summer camp for the school children to involve them in curricular and extra curricular activities during summer vacations. A total of 47 students from ten different schools participated in the camp to harness their hidden potentials. The major themes of the summer camp were information and Communication Technology, English Language, Art and Craft, Life Skills and activity based Exposure Visit.

Speaking on the occasion the guest of honor Mr. Miftahuddin, appreciated the efforts of Hashoo Foundation to provide opportunity to the youth of Chitral to explore their hidden potentials by organizing such events. He hoped that Hashoo Foundation will continue to organize more such events in future. He also urged the participants to concentrate on their education and enhance their technical skills to coup with the future economic challenges and enable themselves to compete with others.

Mr. Amir Muhammad, Regional Programme Manager, FOCUS Humanitarian Assistance Pakistan was also present on the occasion. Earlier Sultan Mehmood, Regional Program Manager HF Chitral welcomed the guests and highlighted the thematic areas around which Hashoo Foundation works in the district of Chitral and in other parts of Pakistan. He particularly referred to Human Resource Development center which has been established to impart training to the youth on marketable skills and link them with the job market.
 

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SRSP restores water supply schemes of flood effected areas

By Zahiruddin

CHITRAL: Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP) reinstated the water supply schemes of four villages Booni, Junali Kotch, Zaiet and Reshun which had been washed away by the recent torrential floods. Regional programme manager of SRSP Chitral Salim Shah told this correspondent that the residents of the affected villages faced acute shortage of drinking water and were forced to fetch the commodity from a long distance of more than ten kilometers. He said that on the special directive of the chief executive officer of SRSP Shahzada Masoodul Mulk, the workers of the organization struggled hard to restore the facility. He said that the organization provided water pipes and other allied materials for the restoration of the water supply schemes. Mr. Shah SRSP has always rushed to the places affected by natural disasters and has helped to restore basic infrastructures. He recalled that the water supply scheme of Ochusht village was also restored within twelve hours of the occurrence of the incidence which had devastated the village.