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From Al-Qur'an
"Of no profit to you will be
your relatives and your children on the Day of Judgment: He will
judge between you: for Allah sees well all that ye do."
(Al-Qur'an ,60:3)
"And spend of your
substance in the cause of Allah, and make not your own hands
contribute to your destruction, but do good; for Allah loveth
those who do good."
(Al-Qur'an, 2:195)
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NGOs assured of govt help |
Chief
Secretary Sindh K B Rind has assured all active non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) of government help. He was talking to a
delegation of the Coordination Council for Sindh consisting of NGOs
from all over the province, at its office on Saturday.
Mr Rind said that the services of active social welfare
organizations were commendable and they should get all possible help
from government departments in their projects. He said those
organizations were playing an effective role for the betterment of
the society. However, he observed that some NGOs only existed on
paper.
He assured the delegation that he would issue instructions to all
provincial secretaries and DCOs to extend full support in their
capacity to active NGOs.
The chief secretary has also assured government employees that an
effective legal line of action regarding residential, transport and
employment quota to government employees would be formulated.
He was speaking at the first session of Jashan-i-Lateef organized by
the Sindh Employees (non-gazetted) Welfare Association (SENWA), here
on Saturday evening. He said he would take every possible step to
solve the problems facing government employees. Rind also promised
to solve the problems of the secretariat mosque on a priority basis.
The chief secretary said it was the duty of the government to
provide maximum facilities to its employees, but government
employees should also perform their duties with honesty and
sincerity.
President SENWA Lala Ashraf Memon also spoke on the occasion
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Non-profit sector can reduce poverty |
Non-profit
organizations have strong roots in the society and they can play an
important role in reducing poverty and inequality in the country.
This was stated by Dr Kaiser Bengali, Acting Managing Director of
the Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) while addressing a
seminar on the non-profit sector organized by the Aga Khan
Foundation and SPDC.
This seminar was part of an international research on the non-profit
sector led by the Johns Hopkins University of the US, with the
Pakistan study being conducted by SPDC and supported by the Aga Khan
Foundation.
Dr Kaiser told the participant that the study was part of a
40-nation comparative research to gain a deeper understanding of the
role and contribution of the non-profit sector. The objectives, he
added, are: to examine the relations between the non-profit sector
and the government, to identify the ways in which this relationship
can be improved, to improve public awareness of this sector and to
provide a more reliable basis for designing policies towards it.
Asif Iqbal, senior economist of SPDC, presented the findings of a
nation-wide survey of non-profit organizations that has been
conducted by SPDC as part of this study.
According to the estimates of this survey, there are about 45,000
non-profit organizations in Pakistan working in various fields.
An important finding of the study is that the non-profit sector is
mainly funded by indigenous resources. The study illustrates a story
that is quite different from general public perception in Pakistan.
It is generally believed that the share of foreign resources is
quite high in non-profit activities. The myth of a 'foreign-driven'
non-profit sector model is not supported by this study, since
non-profit organizations get 87 per cent of their total revenues
from local private philanthropy, membership fees and user charges.
Various stakeholders of the sector including representatives from
civil society organizations, government, academia and media attended
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