Al-Khidmat Foundation launches digital skill programme for youth

PESHAWAR: With the aim to train one million educated youth in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with digital skills, Al-Khidmat Foundation launched its flagship ‘Bano Qabil’ programme in the provincial metropolis after its successful launch in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.

The programme was launched at a ceremony where Caretaker Chief Minister Syed Arshad Hussain Shah was the chief guest. Central president of the foundation Dr Hafeezur Rahman, provincial president Khalid Waqas, central head of the Bano Qabil Programme Syed Naved Ali Baig, provincial deputy chief of Jamaat-e-Islami and patron-in-chief of Bano Qabil, Inayatullah Khan, general secretary Jamaat-e-Islami Abdul Wasi and others spoke on the occasion.

The most attractive in the two-hour long ceremony was the speech of a six-year-old thalassemic girl, Muneeba Zahid, who spoke about the disease she was suffering from due to which her five sisters had already lost their lives. Wearing a doctor’s uniform consisting of a white coat and a stethoscope, the girl introduced herself as Dr Muneeba Zahid.

She said that she knew she was suffering from a fatal disease, but she vowed to fight it and become a doctor so that she could help people suffering from similar diseases. Muneeba was all thankful to Al-Khidmat Foundation for taking good care of her and other patients like her. The caretaker chief minister expressed his joy for being part of such a useful event.

“Whatever the speakers spoke before me were actually my words. I will not repeat those words but I will rather endorse them as it is,” he said, while assuring all-out support to Al-Khidmat Foundation in the project.

He said that it was his great desire to train the unemployed youth with digital skills so that they are able to get some decent jobs. He said that though their prime mandate was to hold fair and transparent elections, he also considered every moment as a great responsibility, which he wanted to fulfil in the best possible manner.

He said that the provincial government had formed a task force led by him which had done a good homework to launch a training programme for the youth to provide jobs to some 300,000 to 400,000 before leaving the office.

Dr Hafeezur Rahman spoke about certain major initiatives of the foundation in the country and abroad. He said that Al-Khidmat Foundation had secured the status of the most trustworthy organisation in the country and at international level. He said that it was a registered organisation having fully active offices in the USA, UK, Norway, Germany, Japan and Turkey.

In Pakistan they have a widespread network of offices and volunteers across the country with its headquarters in Lahore and nine regional offices besides local offices in 160 cities of the country.