Youth development: Student interns complete term

Students from various Lahore universities did eight-week internships under the Youth Development Programme.

LAHORE: The dream of establishing a progressive and developed society in Pakistan cannot be achieved without giving youths and students the opportunity to prove their skills, speakers at the concluding ceremony of the Youth Development Programme said on Saturday.

Students from various Lahore universities did eight-week internships under the programme, which was organised by the Strengthening Participatory Organisation (SPO). The students worked on various social and developmental projects.

The concluding ceremony was attended by SPO Regional head Salman Abid, Lahore College for Women University Gender Studies Department head Sara Shahid, Punjab University faculty member Ra’ana Malik, Institute of Communication Studies director Dr Ahsan Akhtar Naz, educationist Neelam Jabbar and Shirkat Gah director Khawar Mumtaz. The participants said that the Youth Development Programme would help female students find ways to end prejudice against working women.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 30^th, 2011.