Alleviating poverty: 252 deserving women get buffaloes
The animals were given to underprivileged rural women to help them financially
Tangoo, a cotton picker, feeds her family buffaloes outside her home in Meeranpur village, north of Karachi. PHOTO: REUTERS
SIALKOT:
District Commissioner Muhammad Asif distributed buffaloes and cows among 252 poor and deserving women on Thursday. The animals were given to underprivileged rural women to help them financially. The measure would enable them to earn a respectable livelihood. Earlier in November 2016, as many as 260 poor women of Kot Chatha District received sheeps and goats free of charge under the Punjab government’s Ghareeb Parwar Scheme.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 3rd, 2017.
District Commissioner Muhammad Asif distributed buffaloes and cows among 252 poor and deserving women on Thursday. The animals were given to underprivileged rural women to help them financially. The measure would enable them to earn a respectable livelihood. Earlier in November 2016, as many as 260 poor women of Kot Chatha District received sheeps and goats free of charge under the Punjab government’s Ghareeb Parwar Scheme.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 3rd, 2017.