Closing Ceremony of LMST Malakand at Park Way Hotel, Fizagat Mingora

Implemented by: SRSP Funded by: European Union under PEACE Project

March 19, 2014

After successful completion of five days

residential trainings on “Leadership Management

Skills Training (LMST)” for men activists from

different community organizations of Malakand,

the closing ceremony was held, in which apart

from Regional HRDO Swat, 25 men community

activists (training participants) from UC Totakan

& UC Pir Khel District Malakand participated. Mr.

Bakht Karam, Chairman District Zakat

Committee District Shangla was invited as chief

guest in the occasion.

The closing

ceremony took

place with

recitation from

the Holy Quran,

performed by

one among the

participants.

Mr. Bahadur Ali Regional HRDO SRSP Swat Region

thanked the chief guest for sparing his time and

timely participation in the event. He further briefed

the chief guest and entire participants regarding

SRSP vision, mission and overall goals and

objectives of EU-PEACE Project. He further added

that we on behalf of SRSP believe that communities

have the potentials to do, but their potentials need

to be explored, for which SRSP is working. While

expressing his views, he added that we are trying

our best to improve the capacity building training

programmes at all level, so that to get the desired

goals and objectives

Mr. Shahid Khan from

Falahi Tanzeem UC

Totakan, while giving

his feedback regarding

the five days LMST, he

was of the opinion that

we got a lot of

awareness in this

training regarding the

importance of

community institutions

and we have now

realized it.

Mr. Rehmanullah from UC Pir Khel Sahil Tanzeem,

while giving his feedback regarding the five days LMST,

he added that we learned a lot of about community

institutions and also got knowledge about the basic

concept of development, its types and barriers in

development faced. He further added that we have now

determined towards self help initiatives, which could

further lead us towards sustainable development. He

also shared that we have now gone through the basic

concept of social mobilization and also about active

linkages development.

Mr. Fazak Khuda from UC Pir Khel Batosar Tanzeem,

while sharing his feedback regarding the five days LMST, he

added that during the training, we got brotherhood and will

now practically demonstrate it in our local societies. He

further shared that now we know that the community

institution is not for schemes, but scheme are always for

community institutions. He also added that we should now

think positively to resolve the local disputes with mutual

consensus.

The Respected Chief Guest Mr. Bakht Karam,

Chairman District Zakat Committee Shangla,

thanked SRSP staff and the entire participants

while presenting his concluding remarks. He added

that it is a common saying that “God helps those,

who help themselves”, that’s why we are members

of the society and have responsibilities to fulfill. He

also briefed the participants about the department

of Ushar & Zakat as well as zakat disbursement

procedures in detail. He stressed the participants

to show their patience and dedication at all level.

Questions/Answ

ers session was

held, in which

questions raised

by the

participants,

which were

clarified by the

chief guest with

the entire

satisfaction of

participants.

The chief guest

then awarded

certificates to the

training

participants