Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) has imparted vocational training to more than 277,739 impoverished women at its 162 women empowerment centres (WECs) since its inception in order to provide them with an opportunity to start their own small businesses, said a PBM official while talking to WealthPK.

The official said that currently over 12,377 trainees were being imparted training. After completion of training, the PBM also provides trained women with equipment to start their own businesses.

The WECs have given women from underprivileged backgrounds an opportunity to strengthen their careers, build new partnerships and help them realize their full potential.

Currently, the WECs are imparting training in 16 different trades including drafting, cutting, sewing, designing, interior decoration, beautician, cooking, tie and dye, glass painting, computer and current Microsoft office applications to the deserving women. The WECs are being operated in double shifts of six months duration.

The PBM Monitoring and Evaluation Wing has been assigned to pay surprise visits to the vocational/dastkari schools throughout the country to ascertain functioning as per the laid-down policy and submit report to the managing director.

Credit : Independent News Pakistan-WealthPk