Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) is ready to share its experiences with the world especially with the poverty-stricken Asian nations so that the menace of poverty can be eradicated from the region and the goal of mutual growth and prosperity could be achieved.
This was said by Chairperson Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Farzana Raja while talking to Siraj Shamas-ud-Din, Executive Director (ED) Asian Development Bank (ADB) who called on her Thursday.
Chairperson BISP also apprised ADB's Executive Director about various components of BISP and the progress that the programme has achieved in last three years with a thumping impact to bring positive economic changes in the lives of the millions of its beneficiaries.
She told the visiting ADB official that BISP has launched various graduation strategies providing interest-free micro financing, demand driven vocational and technical training along with Life Insurance Scheme to help beneficiary families stand on their own feet and become self-reliant.
Executive Director ADB appreciated the efforts of BISP regarding poverty alleviation and was of the view that ADB's current assistance to BISP of US $150 million is being utilised properly by the programme. Siraj Shamas-ud-Din informed Farzana Raja that various countries of the region are interested in observing the methods and procedures adopted by BISP so that they can implement similar sort of social safety nets to eradicate poverty.-PR
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