National Assembly (NA) Speaker Asad Qaiser on Monday said that it was the prime objective of his life to give due care to special persons, orphans and needy people and to bring happiness in their lives.
He said that special villages would be established across the country for provision of education, healthcare and other facilities to these people. He expressed these views while talking to Deaf Reach Education Service Founder Richard Geary who had called on him.
This welfare organisation is imparting education in more than a dozen schools of deaf people in Sindh. The speaker expressed the desire that model villages will be established in each provincial capital and government should provide land, electricity, gas and other basic amenities to these villages. He stressed that welfare organisations, philanthropists and Baitul Maal should extend cooperation to fulfil the needs of these villages.
NA Speaker Asad Qaiser said that rehabilitation and bringing positive changes in the lives of deprived and needy is the foremost priority of the incumbent government. He also told that he had visited a school for deaf persons in Rashidabad, Tando Allah Yar and was impressed by the standards of educational activities and other facilities there. He expressed his desire for establishing the school for deaf people in Swabi on the pattern of Rashidabad and sought the guidance of Richard Geary.
Geary expressed deep gratitude for the passion of the speaker and assured every possible support in this regard. The speaker expressed his desire that these special people also become responsible citizens and pay their role in the development and progress of the country and also to mainstream these people. He said that he would announce the establishment of a consortium consisting of all those individuals and welfare organisations who are working for the betterment of special people within next few days. This consortium will help to devise a future plan and strategy for serving these special people.
Published in Daily Times, January 29th 2019.
