Social welfare: Children’s home to be established in Faisalabad

The children will be given free education and medical treatment.

FAISALABAD:

The Punjab Social Welfare Department is building a Children’s Home that will house as many as 50 orphans and neglected children, Social Welfare District Officer Wahida Iftikhar told District Coordination Officer Najam Ahmad Shah at a briefing on the project on Saturday.

The home is being built at a cost of Rs53.771 million at the Social Welfare Complex, D-Ground, People’s Colony. Iftikhar said that 80 per cent of the construction work had been completed. She said the home would admit children within the year.

Iftikhar said that a conference room, a common room, a TV lounge, a caretaker’s room and a book store had been constructed in the basement of the children’s home. The superintendent’s office, a staff room, a library, a housekeeper’s room, a visitor’s gallery and toilets had been built on the ground floor.

A sick room, a common room, a dormitory, a TV lounge, a mess, a kitchen and a store have been constructed on the first floor. A dormitory, a sick room, a warden’s room and toilets are under construction on the second floor of the building.

The children kept at the facility will be provided education, vocational training and medical treatment by the Social Welfare Department.

DCO Shah said that the project should be completed in the stipulated time.

He asked to be informed of any hurdles and for a close liaison with the contractor.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 1^st, 2013.