Old Age Home project to be inaugurated after 15th August
- August 4, 2015, 4:54 pm
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HQ City Report
QUETTA: Member Provincial Assembly, Ms. Rahila Hameed Khan Durrani visited the Old Age Home (OAH) Institution here the other day.
The President of the Institution, Brigadier ® Abdul Razzaq Baloch briefed Ms. Durrani, who also happens to be Patron-in-Chief of the Institution, about it in detail.
It may be mentioned here that OAH Institution is being constructed at the cost of around Rs. 42.2 million.
Rs. 20 million have been provided under MPA Fund. The funds of Rs. 5 million more would also be given during the current financial year, it was briefed to the visiting MPA by Brigadier ® Abdul Razzaq Baloch.
It was also informed that USAID, Habib Bank Limited and German Consulate had provided the necessary furniture, electric appliances and other goods for the OAH Institution.
Preliminarily, there would be capacity of keeping 20 senior women in the Old Age Home while on completion, there would be capacity for some 50 women there.
They would be provided free food, accommodation and medical facilities in the Old Age Home.
Needless to mention here is that it is the first project of its kind that has been launched by any of the welfare organization in Quetta.
Although our religion and values learn us to respect our old parents, but some time a situation emerged when there’s no one to care the old and destitute women.
So, it was decided to initiate the project on humanitarian ground and hoped that the philanthropists of the province would come forward and help run it.
Brigadier ® Abdul Razzaq Baloch expressed the hope that the way the government, Pak army, Frontier Corps (FC) and the philanthropists served the cause of orphaned children would also cooperate wholehearted in running the Old Age Home project.
The project would be inaugurated after August 15, 2015. At the moment, registration of the needy persons has been started and a number of them have started contacting the Institution.
Moreover, it would be requested to students of the colleges and universities to spend few moments with the old women and serve them.
The MPA appreciating the project stressed the need to involve the people in the project who have served the country in different capacities.
They should serve as a think tank to run the project, resolve the issues of the people and create awareness among the public, she stressed.
