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PAKISTAN BAIT-UL-MAL

The office of Pakistan Bait-Ul-Mal (PBM) was established in Muzaffargarh in
1991. Besides providing financial assistance, educational assistance, and
medical assistance, initially a scheme of providing subsidy on aata (flour)
was launched. Later, a comprehensive Food Support Programme was also
initiated whereby up to 33,000 beneficiaries used to get cash subsidy from
the Government in the form of regular installments.

In 2005, a Dastkari School was established wherein the students were not
only taught the skill of sewing but were also paid stipend. Later, this
programme was upgraded and renamed as Women Empowerment Centre. In
addition to sewing, the female students now learn beautician as well as IT
courses as part of the diploma offered by the Centre.

PBM is also running two schools in the district under the title of School for
the Rehabilitation of Child Labour and Orphans for the less privileged of the
society. Besides getting free education, the students get stipend, uniform,
shoes, bags, and medical assistance as well as 2 recreational trips every year.
In July 2019, the PBM established and inaugurated Darul-Ehsas—its first
orphanage of south Punjab in Kot Addu. The institution would provide
education as well as boarding facilities to orphan boys. It has a capacity of
100 boys, though 76 have been admitted yet.

Furthermore, when the Muzaffargarh Dialysis Society—first initiative of its
kind in public sector in the entire country—was instituted in Muzaffargarh
in 2019 to provide continuous, certain and free dialysis services to all dialysis
requiring patients of the district, the Managing Director, Pakistan Bait-ul-
Mal, as a goodwill gesture to acknowledge and encourage the initiative,
himself visited Muzaffargarh and announced that thenceforth expenses of at
least 50 patients would be borne by the Bait-ul-Mal on permanent basis.

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