LAHORE: Lahore Businessmen Association for Rehabilitation of Disabled (LABARD) and Faysal Bank have joined hands to serve the special people in a better way. Faysal Bank has also donated a modern vehicle to LABARD for easy movement of the special children getting education & training under the umbrella of LABARD. Federal Commerce Minister & LABARD President Pervez Malik, President Faysal Bank Yousaf Hussain, LABARD Secretary General Muhammad Saeed Khan, Bushra Aitzaz Ahsan, Naghmana Javed and Ali Pervez Malik spoke on the occasion and praised the gesture of the management of Faysal Bank.
Expressing his views, President Faysal Bank Yousaf Hussain said, “We recognize that we cannot have a healthy and growing business unless the communities we serve are healthy and sustainable. We are committed to improving the quality of life in the communities where we do business and have realigned our community investment priorities to be reflective of and responsive to the global and local nature of our business. We are committed towards LABARD’s initiative and will work hands-on with the management to complete this project.”
Federal Commerce Minister & LABARD President Pervez Malik said that LABARD is focusing to further extend the scope of its services. He said that presently, the LABARD is not only establishing camps in various parts of the City for the registration of disabled persons but is also focusing on building the confidence of the people who are suffering due to some disability so that they could be able to face all challenges boldly. Pervez Malik said that the LABARD Qarz-eHasna scheme had also given encouraging results and a large number of disabled persons are running their small businesses successfully. The LABARD President said that the Lahore Businessmen Association for Disabled persons has extended training to thousands of disabled persons so far and it has decided to extend the scope of these trainings in coming days.
LABARD Secretary General Muhammad Saeed Khan said that the government should patronize all LABARD-like institutions so that the stigma of disability could be removed from the face of Pakistani society. He said that it is religious and moral duty of the whole private sector to ensure jobs to the disabled persons so that they could enjoy the status equal to other members of the society.
