| PKSF Holds Seminar Addressing the World Woman’s Day |
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PKSF Holds Seminar Addressing the World Woman’s Day A seminar was held on 15 March 2012 by PKSF addressing the World Woman’s Day 2012. The heading of the seminar was “Contribution of PKSF in Developing/ Empowering Women”. This is the first time that PKSF has held such a seminar on such contemporary issue. 17 female Executive Directors of 17 Partner Organizations (POs); 8 representatives from women-lead POs; male Executive Directors from 10 POs; women beneficiaries from 18 POs; 2 beneficiaries from LIFT project-- participated in this seminar. Dr. Pratima Paul-Majumder, member, Governing Body, PKSF; Mrs. Majeda Shawkat Ali, member, General Body, PKSF; Dr. Quazi Mesbahuddin Ahmed, Managing Director, PKSF; Md. Fazlul Kader, Deputy-Managing Director (Operations) , PKSF; Dr. Jashim Uddin, Deputy-Managing Director (Admin. & Finance), PKSF and all the female employees of PKSF were present in the seminar. Dr. Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, Chaiman, PKSF chaired the seminar.
 Dr. Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad listened to the suggestion provided by the participants and welcomed them. He mentioned that PKSF has already taken the issues of education and health facilities seriously as they are working on it through ENRICH program of PKSF. Besides, he emphasized on the following issues in accordance with the discussion of the partakers: the Code of Conduct should be practiced regardless of male and female employees in PKSF and PO level; female employees should be given more opportunity in taking part in training; it has to be supervised carefully that, whether lending microcredit is effectively empowering women or not; the opportunity of winning ‘special fund scholarship’ should be broadened for female beneficiaries; for encouraging the female entrepreneurs, “Performance Award” can be presented to the POs; even the female Executive Directors of the POs can create an institution to work more efficiently, though the initiative should be taken by the POs themselves. Finally, he said that this seminar is a start and all have to march toward the path of development with greater initiative. |
