UNHCR programme: Refugees get sewing machines, toolkits

QUETTA: As part of its initiative to provide earning skills to Afghan refugees the UNHCR and its partner organisation IDO provided tailoring and handicraft training to 55 men and women at Malgagai Refugee Camp in Muslim Bagh. UNHCR and IDO distributed sewing machines and toolkits among the course members on conclusion of their skill learning programme on Monday. Briefing the guests, project manager Shoukat Kakar said that 55 men and women living in the camp had been taught skills of handicraft and tailoring. MPA Masooma Hayat handed over the certificates, toolkits and sewing machines among the men and women who had completed the course.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 5^th, 2016.