Closing Ceremony of LMST Swat
At Hotel Swat Regency Mingora on June 24, 2014
After successful completion of five days
residential training on LMST for
community activists, the closing
ceremony was held at Hotel Swat
Regency on June 24, 2014, in which
apart from Regional HRDO Swat, 25
men community activists (training
participants) took part from UC
Kishawra District Swat. Mr. Saqalain
(District Sports Officer Swat) was also
invited for the occasion as chief guest.
The closing ceremony was started with
recitation from the Holy Quran,
performed by one among the training
participants.
Mr. Bahadur Ali (Regional HRDO Swat) thanked
the entire participants and also presented warm
welcome to the chief guest for sparing his
precious time for the event. He highlighted
vision, mission and working approach of SRSP
especially with regard to community
participation. He also briefed the chief guest
shortly about the five days residential LMST and
its contents. He asked the participants to
practically demonstrate the skills, what they
learnt during LMST, ensure involvement of
poorest of the poor in their community
institutions and also to strengthen their COs
further on sustainable basis. The entire
participants showed their keen interest and
committed.
The respected chief guest Mr. Saqalain (District Sports Officer Swat) while expressing his concluding remarks, he
added that SRSP has provided such type of training platform for learning in better environment, which indicates
towards encouraging local communities and thus the community participation in both in human and physical
development could be ensured to sufficient extent. He further added that through these capacity building
programmes and involvement of stakeholders on the last day of training would help in ensuring close coordination
between the line departments and concerned communities. He ensured all possible support to be extended by the
sports department on the basis of when and where required.
Mr. Farman Ali (President of Khuna Cham VO) one among
the training participants, while giving his feedback
regarding the five days residential LMST, he highlighted the
importance of community institutions. He was of the
opinion that CO is power, which could further lead us
towards brotherhood, collectivism and development. He
further expressed that we learnt a lot of about social
mobilization, development and community participation,
which we would onward practically demonstrate in our
COs at our local concerned communities. He on behalf of
all participants showed entire satisfaction with regard to all
logistic and training arrangements.