The German Ambassador to Pakistan Alfred Grannas and his Embassy team visited the Sindh Rural Support Organization (SRSO), in Mirpurkhas.
According to SRSO Spokesperson, the aim of his visit was to learn about the organization and its poverty reduction initiatives supported by the Government of Sindh. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Muhammad Dital Kalhoro shared his organization approach and highlighted interventions made at the community level for financial, social, and economic empowerment of rural communities through small entrepreneurship with a women-led household-based approach.
He furthur added that UCBPRP was a symbol in terms of service delivery to the poorest rural population through social mobilization to empower the local communities by socially and economically enabling them to improve their livelihood and increase their earnings through Income Generating Grants (IGG) and Community Fund.
He said that the programme was not only focused on social sector improvement by directly addressing the indicators of health, poverty, environment, social security, shelter, employment and basic livelihood but also helped in achieving the objective and targets of universally accepted Sustainable Development Goals(SDP) of which Pakistan was a signatory.
The German delegation appreciated SRSO’s work aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.Earlier, the delegation was gifted with German-made Ajrak by rural women. The meeting concluded with the distribution of hygiene kits to promote good health and hygiene.
