200 students from tribal districts attend training on digital skills

PESHAWAR: Over 200 female students hailing from the newly merged tribal districts and some students from the provincial metropolis attended the two-day training on digital skills, freelancing, content writing, cooking and beautician, which concluded here on Friday.

The training was jointly organised by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Peshawar, Bint-e-Hawa Forum and Directorate of Youth Affairs Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Founder of Bint-e-Hawa Forum, Alam Zeib Khan said that the two-day training was organised as a pilot project. The forum will formally sign a memorandum of understanding with the University’s Women Development Centre under which various 14-day courses will be organized within the university with a special focus on female students belonging to merged districts.

In addition, he declared that Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University will work as a collaborator with the Forum to organise the 3rd Edition of the Bint-e-Hawa Achievement Awards going to be held in March this year.

He further informed that under the next upcoming project, a business idea competition will be held for the students of Merged Districts, in which the students with the most creative idea will be granted seed money amount of Rs 50,000 so that they can initiate a small business of their own.

University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Safia Ahmed said that Bint-e-Hawa Forum has taken a very good initiative in trying for skill development among female students of merged districts. She said that the university is also willing to do various projects in collaboration with the government in which students are taught different skills so that they can start their own business and become job creators instead of job seekers.

“The MoUs have been signed with various government and non-government organisations to fulfill the cause. An MoU with Bint-e-Hawa will be a welcome move for the students,” she added.

She also expressed her desire that being the first and largest Women University of the province more opportunities would be provided for all the students, especially those belonging to merged districts.