PAKISTAN: Karachi To Get Centres For Senior Citizens

KARACHI (The Post - Associated Press of Pakistan), November 29, 2007: The City Government of Karachi has decided to setup Senior Citizen Welfare Development Centres in all the towns of Karachi in coordination with Senior Citizen Advisory Council. This was stated by Naib Nazim Karachi, Nasrin Jalil while talking to a 25-member delegation of Senior Citizen Club Wednesday. She said the City Government had appealed to philanthropists to assist in setting up these centres. Initially, two such centres were being setup in Gulberg and Malir Towns and an MoU in this regard had been signed between CDGK's Community Development Department and Senior Citizen Advisory Council. The Senior Citizen Club has been set up on the 60th birth anniversary of Pakistan and people of 60 years or above could get free membership. Nasrin Jalil congratulated the club's office-bearers and pointed out that in this fast moving era, the younger generation could not have spare time for their elders and, therefore, under such conditions the significance of Senior Citizen Club had grown. She told the delegation that centres for senior citizens would have facilities of reading room, free medical check up and a resting place. Senior citizens could come to the centres, read newspapers and magazines and use indoor recreational facilities so that they do not feel lonely. Source: The Post, Lahore