SINDH RURAL SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari addressed thousands of rural women during a launching ceremony of the Peoples Poverty Reduction Program (PPRP), organized by Sindh Rural Support organization in Ghotki district on September 01, 2021. Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah, Provincial Minister, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, Nisar Ahmed Khoro, Chairperson P&DD Sindh, senior officials of various departments and other dignitaries, 4000 Women members of Community Organizations and community leaders/ CRPs across the Sindh Province and media representatives attended the launching ceremony. Sindh Rural Support Organization is executing executed Peoples’ Poverty Reduction program in 6 districts of Sindh with the financial support of the Govt. of Sindh and now extended to 2 more districts i.e.; Ghotki and Sukkur, which was appreciated by the European Union and initiated Sindh Union Council and Community Economic Strengthening Support (Success) Program in 8 districts of Sindh province in 2016. The same program was further replicated in another six districts in 2017 by the Govt. of Sindh.
The Sindh government has extended financial support to the rural support programs (RSPs) for rural people to enable them to articulate their aspirations and to effectively marshal the resources they need to meet their identified needs. SRSO has economically strengthened 1.3 million families provided interest-free loans to more than 200,000 women and established 23,000 houses besides providing them opportunities for skill development.
Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said that the poverty alleviation program had been approved by [then prime minister] Ms. Benazir Bhutto and launched by [then Sindh chief minister] Syed Qaim Ali Shah. Now it was being extended to eight more districts. With the required funding expected to be received this program would be extended to all districts of the province.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Mr. Bilawal Zardari said on the occasion, that the Government believed that NGOs including charity and public welfare organizations are carrying out a commendable job by looking after people at the grassroots level and in urban as well as far off rural areas of the country. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said the Sindh Government believed in serving people and he wanted to facilitate them without any discrimination. He said that the People Poverty Reduction Program would also empower women economically because flourishing a woman would change the entire living of the family. He said it was his dream to empower women, as her slain mother thought to do, saying the Sindh government has launched a program with Rs.6 billion in funding to provide 23,000 houses to the deserving women of Sindh, especially of Ghotki and Sukkur districts. He said around 1.3 million families in 15 districts of Sindh would be benefited from the Peoples’ poverty reduction program, expressing his dream place, where women could play an equal economic, political, and social role. He was happy to see how these poor rural women got organized actively and very positively responded to these programs.
The guests were greatly delighted to see these organized women, inspired and appreciated their work.