Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR (AJK), (Parliament Times) : World-fame Kashmir-origin NGO and rehabilitation outfit – Kashmir Orphan Relief Trust (KORT) has started construction work of at least one thousand separate residential houses to provide impressive and honorable accommodation to the shelter less people badly affected by the devastating floods in Punjab, Balochistan and Sind provinces that ravaged the huge area of the three provinces this year.
The Kashmir-origin Britisher – founder Chairman of the KORT Ch. Muhammad Akhter (Sitara e Imtiaz), at the first leg of the gigantic rehabilitation plan, has been performed the ground breaking ceremony of the houses project for homeless flood affectees in Rajanpur district of Southern Punjab.
This was disclosed by Executive Director KORT Sardar Sajid Dilawar Khan in an exclusive interview to our Special AJK Correspondent Altaf Hamid Rao at the KORT Orphans Rehabilitation and Educational Complex here on Sunday.
The KORT, it is worthwhile to mention here, is running South Asia’s largest Orphans Rehabilitation and Educational Complex at Akhterabad in outskirt of the lake-side City of Mirpur Azad Jammu Kashmir, housing at least 500 orphan and shelter less children including hundreds of those fallen homeless loosing their parents in the deadly earthquake of October 08, 2005 – besides the shelter less kids including the abandoned children of the ages of few hours in the full-furnished complex containing State of the art facilities for the rehabilitation of the innocent homeless humanity.
Elaborating the 1000-houses project for shelter less flood affectees in above three provinces, Sardar Sajid Dilawar Khan continued that each house will be comprising two rooms, kitchen and a bathroom with the cost of at least Rs. 4.50 lakh to be gathered as donations from the philanthropists, donors both at home and abroad – most particularly from our Pakistani, Kashmiri Diaspora community settled in the United Kingdom and other European countries.
To a question, the Director KORT said that entire 1000 houses project will be completed, under phased program within next one year stipulated period as the project was launched with formal ground breaking ceremony performed by the KORT founder Chairman Ch. Akhter in Rajanpur district during recent visit of the KORT’s Chief recently, he added.
To another question, Sajid Dilawar Khan underlined that the gigantic housing project would be continued till the rehabilitation of maximum number of the shelter less flood affectees. He added that construction of one thousand houses is the part at first leg of the broad-based rehabilitation project in the flood-hit zones in the three badly devastating flood-hit provinces of the country.
