PESHAWAR
Director Bait-ul-Mal Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through a letter to the head of shelter homes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa announced closer of all eight Shelter Homes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to lack of funds.
The shelter’s homes will remain active till the last day of Ramadan, which is expected as April 21, 2023, said a letter issued by concerned quarters to all the heads of eight Shelter Homes.
It is worth mentioning here that the Shelter Homes Project was launched in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a joint venture of the Federal Government and Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under which 8 Shelter Homes were established and kept operational till date.
The letter says that despite repeated requests by PBM to the federal government, as well as recommendations, requests of the KP Panahgah Welfare Board to the provincial government, none of the governments has transferred funds to Pakistan Bait ul Mal to continue the operations of the Shelter Homes.
Keeping the view of such hardship of the funds, the Shelter Homes will either be closed or handed over to the provincial government for continuations of operations in future, says the letter.
The letter says that the operations of the 8 shelter homes will be closed after serving “Iftahri” on the last day of Ramadan, which is expected to be April 21, 2023 while all the employees of Shelter Homes will be considered laid off after April 30, 2023.
Shelters Home are being closed due to non-provision of funds by the federal government, said the letter. Shelters in Peshawar, Mardan, Abbottabad, Swat, Kohat, Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan will remain closed while after April 30, all the employees of the shelters except the security guard will also be relieved.
