PRCS Fata to make efforts for expanding activities in health, education, relief work

PESHAWAR: The managing committee of the Fata chapter of Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has decided to make efforts for acquiring land to construct the building of its provincial headquarters and raise funds to expand its activities in the field of health, education and relief work.

The managing committee held its meeting in Peshawar presided over by the PRCS Fata chairman Muhammad Fareed Khan Wazir. Vice-Chairperson Prof Dr Sarah Safdar and several members of the managing committee attended the meeting.

The managing committee authorized the PRCS Fata chairman to sell the plat of five kanal land owned by the society at Bab-i-Jadeed in Nowshera district and used the money and other funds to be raised to buy a suitable plot of land in Hayatabad or Regi housing projects on subsidized rates to construct a building for housing the provincial headquarters.

It was decided to arrange meetings with Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, President of Pakistan and Federal Minister SAFRON and other concerned officials to seek help for acquiring land on subsidized rates and for enabling the PRCS Fata to play a more active and meaningful role in its work in the militancy-affected tribal areas. The Governor would be requested to sanction a regular annual grant for the PRCS Fata on the lines of grants being given to the other provincial branches of PRCS in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other provinces.

The managing committee formed a fund-raising committee and decided to approach local and foreign donors for seeking funds for PRCS Fata’s ongoing and new projects in the field of health, education and relief work.

As the PRCS Fata is exempted from obtaining no-objection certificate (NOC) for working in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), it was decided to seek international donors’ assistance for implementing projects under its mandate to facilitate the rehabilitation and resettlement of the temporarily displaced persons who have been repatriated to their hometowns and villages.