PPAF extends help to Internally Displaced Persons of NWFP

May18, 2009

Capitalizing on its rehabilitation and reconstruction experience of 2005 earthquake, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF), in a swift response, has decided to provide basic infrastructure, water, sanitation, health, education, guidance, counselling and skill development facilities to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of NWFP.

The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting between Kamal Hyat, CEO/MD, PPAF, and Javed Iqbal, Chief Secretary, NWFP.

In the first instance, PPAF would cater to immediate needs of IDPs in camps in Mardan and Swabi. In close coordination with the NWFP government and international donor agencies, PPAF would fast track registration process of the IDPs living outside camps in Swabi and Mardan so that coordinated efforts could be made to help out maximum number of IDPs in this hour of need. Communities living in and outside camps would be socially mobilized with emphasis on counselling and provision of basic infrastructure, water supply and sanitation facilities at the earliest.

PPAF staff has also donated one-day salary to the Prime Minister’s special fund for Internally Displaced Persons. As the government machinery is fully aware of the situation and taking measures to provide relief to the displaced peoples so PPAF would also play its role as a bridge between the government, donor agencies and the IDPs.