Towards normalcy: People of Bara get money cards for rehabilitation

Since Feb 2016, a beginning for allotment carried out by WFP has significantly contributed to a uplift of people returning to Bara. PHOTO: APP

Since Feb 2016, a beginning for allotment carried out by WFP has significantly contributed to a uplift of people returning to Bara. PHOTO: APP

PESHAWAR: Cash cards were distributed on Tuesday among a replaced people who have returned to Bara in Khyber Agency.

The cash-for-work beginning in Bara was directly ancillary a reconstruction plan for a genealogical areas and repatriation of a tribespeople to their hometowns, pronounced a United Nations representative, James Switzer, during a cards placement rite of FATA Recovery Programme hold during a internal hotel in Peshawar.

Empowering

Under a initiative, a tribespeople will get Rs6,000 each month by a income card. The income will be given to them so they could lift out reconstruction on their possess — to resume their slight life — for instance, refurbish a irrigation channels so that they can acquire a living. They will also be means to reconstruct their roads and cope with imminent disasters. The efforts are also directed during reviving disrupted livelihoods and augmenting resilience of a influenced population.

Also benefaction on a occasion, FATA Additional Chief Secretary Fida Wazir pronounced all a replaced people will be sent behind to their areas by a finish of 2016. However, he added, reconstruction for a replaced families is not an easy task. “It is formidable and will take time for things to come behind to normal.”

He confirmed South Waziristan Agency was a many influenced segment and authorities would leave no mill unturned to assistance a people.

The programme was jointly orgainsed by a World Food Programme, UN agencies and a FATA Secretariat.

Bara Assistant Political Agent Meer Raza Asghar and member of UN agencies were also benefaction on a occasion. Asghar pronounced growth work was underneath approach in Khyber Agency.

Since Feb 2016, a beginning for allotment carried out by WFP has significantly contributed to a uplift of people returning to Bara.

Published in The Express Tribune, Aug 31st, 2016.

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