Sindh women receive home titles in rebuilt flood-affected village
KARACHI: First Lady Aseefa Bhutto Zardari and World Bank Managing Director for Operations Anna Bjerde distributed home ownership certificates to women in Nazar Muhammad Laghari Goth, a flood-affected village in District Shaheed Benazirabad, during a visit on May 23. They were accompanied by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, World Bank Country Director Najy Benhassine, and Sindh Peoples Housing for Flood Affected (SPHF) CEO Khalid Mahmood Sheikh. The visit focused on the ongoing rehabilitation efforts under the SPHF programme, which is tasked with rebuilding homes destroyed during the 2022 floods. According to an official statement, the programme is being implemented by the Sindh government with financial and technical support from the World Bank. During the visit, the delegation was briefed that all 32 homes destroyed in the village have been rebuilt. Aseefa Bhutto Zardari and Anna Bjerde met members of the local Village Reconstruction C...