Helping the helpless: K-P govt plans to revamp 11 shelter homes: official

PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has planned to revamp 11 shelter homes in different districts of the province to provide better accommodation facilities to homeless people.

Officials in Social Welfare and Special Education Department told APP on Friday that 11 shelter homes exist in the province including three in Peshawar and eight others in regional headquarters of the province that would be revamped and rehabilitated with provision of all modern facilities.

As per vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan, he said, Chief Minister Mahmoud Khan has taken a principled decision to establish three new shelter homes in Peshawar with direction to officials concerned to collect data of homeless people for their proper identification and start work in this connection.

He said development of an integrated and comprehensive social protection system for assistance of deprived segment of society is the top priority of K-P government and under this landmark initiative.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 1^st, 2018.