Panahgah residents of twin cities offered trip to home for Eid

PM's focal person on shelter homes announces to bear travelling expense for elderly dwellers

ISLAMABAD:

Prime Minister's Focal Person on Shelter Homes Naseemur Rehman has announced to bear travelling expense for elderly dwellers of the Panahgahs or shelter homes of twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad to let them enjoy the Eid festivities with their family members.

He said the initiative was meant to reunite the deserving elderly with their loved ones on the occasion of Eidul Azha. "We have finalised the arrangements for sponsoring a senior daily wager travel from shelter home to his real home so that he can be united with his family," Rehman told the media here during his routine visit to the Shelter Home of Sector G-9.

He said several deserving elderly residents had been identified in a quick survey which was carried out to determine the financial insolvency of Panahgahs guests. "We have carefully identified the needy and poor who cannot afford to be with their family as their effort to survive has touched the rock bottom due to coronavirus pandemic fallout."

Published in The Express Tribune, August 1^st, 2020.