Deserving people: ‘PBM bearing health, education expenses’

Filtration plant, library, dispensary inaugurated at LHC Rawalpindi registry.

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Baitul Mal (PBM) has been providing stipends to more than 20,000 deserving children under its child support programme.

PBM Managing Director Barrister Abid Waheed Sheikh said this after inaugurating a water filtration plant, a library, and a dispensary at the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi registry here on Wednesday.

Sheikh said that transparency, efficiency and accessibility have been introduced in PBM to enable the poor to have an easy access to the social safety net.

PBM has also established 10 more Sweet Homes orphanages across Pakistan, all of which offer lodging, clothing, food, entertainment and education facilities, he said.

“PBM has also been running centres for the rehabilitation of child labourers. Such children are not only being provided free education, but their families are also being provided financial help to encourage them to send their children to PBM-run centres,” Sheikh said.

In the health sector, he said, PBM was bearing the expenses of terminal patients with cancer, hepatitis, heart and other diseases and that PBM has opened counters and cells in all major hospitals across the country to help those needing financial assistance for treatment.

He said PBM has also set up a state-of-the-art centre in Islamabad to help treat children with thalassemia.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 25^th,  2016.