When law fails, listening helps
A group of elderly women turn to each other as they await benefits promised by senior citizens law
Elderly women from Younisabad meet every two months since 2019 to discuss implementation of the Sindh Senior Citizens Welfare Act, 2014 that still remains pending. PHOTO: Sameer Mandhro
KARACHI:
It had been around two months when the women, at least 16 in number, had last met. From a distance, it was difficult to distinguish one from the other - their postures had slight bents, their skin full of wrinkles, and their voices shook with emotion if not frailness. Yet, all of them had the same story to tell - but with slight variations - of another struggle, another misery, another affliction and another misfortune, all of them now spiraling in the face of a raging pandemic.
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National
December 17, 2020
SUKKUR: The Sindh Rural Support Organisation (SRSO), a local NGO, has initiated a public awareness campaign to combat the Covid-19 pandemic in Shikarpur and Larkana districts. According to a statement issued on Wednesday, the key objectives of the project are to support and respond to Sindh government to address, respond, and mitigate the sufferings of the people. It said the SRSO initiated the project to engage and collaborate with community, district administration, and workers of the health department. In this regard, a team was hired and trained to make aware the people about the Covid-19 pandemic. Under this project, as many as 830 representatives of 83 local support organisations have been trained through one-day workshop in 83 union councils, including 37 UCs of Shikarpur and 46 UCs of Larkana.