Shangla deputy commissioner, Zia-ur-Rehman has said that Shangla has highest number of orphans due to rising coalmine incidents in parts of the country from where dead bodies brought to Shangla every month.
The Shangla deputy commissioner, Zia-ur-Rehman told this during a seminar organised by the district administration at district Jirga Hall in Alpuri on Thursday in collaboration with the Kashmir Orphans Relief Trust on Thursday and attended by over 100 orphans and their guardians beside the government officials of line departments.
DC Shangla on the occasion said that humanity teaches us to serve the needy and helpless people of the society generously and with this spirit useful societies were formed.
“We hold this conference today in Shangla is aime as there is high number of orphans in the district mostly left by the coalmine workers who died in the mines every year and their children abandoned without guardian,” Shangla DC said.
DC Shangla said that they had contacted and brought a very beneficial project for the orphans here, so the people here should admit these orphans to the model school facility managed by the Kashmir Orphan Relief Trust in Swabi, where these children would be given master’s level Education.
Noman Malik, manager of the provincial campus of Kashmir Orphan Relief Trust, said that their trust was established after the earthquake 2005 and its founder set up this trust with the same thought and established a model school under its management as well aimed to provide free, quality education to orphans and make their future brighter so that they could feed their families in future.
He announced that 300 orphan children 10 years of age would be enrolled in the Swabi campus of Kashmir orphan relief trust school through the mediation of Deputy Commissioner Shangla and along with sponsorship, they will be given free modern education up to Master’s level.
District Education Officer Muzaffar Ali Khan, PTI Malakand Division Vice President Mohammad Shahid, SDEO Aurangzeb and Pakistan Muslim League (N) District Leader Salman Khan also addressed the conference and shed light on the plight of coalminer orphans and education importance.
