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Initiative to help people grow own food
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
By Our Correspondent
LAHORE
WITH many Lahorites struggling to meet the cost of rising household bills, the Azme Alishan initiative has launched a new activity which seeks to encourage local people to grow their own food.
Azme Alishan teams along with volunteers will be going door-to-door in 30 mohallas across Lahore, offering help and advice to enable residents to become self-sufficient and avoid some of the high priced food that are weighing heavily on their monthly incomes. With petrol prices spiralling upwards, the ongoing loadshedding crisis and the upcoming implementation of the new VAT laws, the ability to grow food at home will go some way to saving Lahorites some much needed money while ensuring that they continue to eat healthily.
Speaking at a ceremony, Taher A. Khan, an Azme Alishan patron, stated that with everything that was going on in Pakistan this might not seemed like much, said a statement issued here. Azme Alishans volunteers will donate vegetables to help establish household and neighbourhood vegetable plots, and will also teach residents about ways to cultivate and nurture the vegetables to ensure they continue to deliver lower food bills for years to come.
Aamir a resident of Makkah Colony, Lahore said that it was a happy moment to see that there were people among us, who wanted to make a difference in Pakistan and were doing something to make it happen,.
The vegetable planting initiative follows the success of the ongoing Sanwaro Pakistan initiative that has seen cleaning teams scouring the city in the last couple of weeks in a bid to clean and tidy the mohallas, streets and houses. That initiative was one of the largest cleaning drives ever put together in Lahore and is still on-going. This was followed by the vegetable planting drive which is also a unique initiative conceived and supported by the Azme Alishan movement.
Good Job Lahoris, and I hope the whole of Pakistan follows too!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
By Our Correspondent
LAHORE
WITH many Lahorites struggling to meet the cost of rising household bills, the Azme Alishan initiative has launched a new activity which seeks to encourage local people to grow their own food.
Azme Alishan teams along with volunteers will be going door-to-door in 30 mohallas across Lahore, offering help and advice to enable residents to become self-sufficient and avoid some of the high priced food that are weighing heavily on their monthly incomes. With petrol prices spiralling upwards, the ongoing loadshedding crisis and the upcoming implementation of the new VAT laws, the ability to grow food at home will go some way to saving Lahorites some much needed money while ensuring that they continue to eat healthily.
Speaking at a ceremony, Taher A. Khan, an Azme Alishan patron, stated that with everything that was going on in Pakistan this might not seemed like much, said a statement issued here. Azme Alishans volunteers will donate vegetables to help establish household and neighbourhood vegetable plots, and will also teach residents about ways to cultivate and nurture the vegetables to ensure they continue to deliver lower food bills for years to come.
Aamir a resident of Makkah Colony, Lahore said that it was a happy moment to see that there were people among us, who wanted to make a difference in Pakistan and were doing something to make it happen,.
The vegetable planting initiative follows the success of the ongoing Sanwaro Pakistan initiative that has seen cleaning teams scouring the city in the last couple of weeks in a bid to clean and tidy the mohallas, streets and houses. That initiative was one of the largest cleaning drives ever put together in Lahore and is still on-going. This was followed by the vegetable planting drive which is also a unique initiative conceived and supported by the Azme Alishan movement.
Good Job Lahoris, and I hope the whole of Pakistan follows too!
