RAHIM YAR KHAN, Oct 8: The Child Protection Welfare Bureau is playing a significant role in the rehabilitation of the neglected children.

This was stated by Punjab child protection officer Fayyaz Ahmed Butt while speaking at a seminar on `networking’ organised by CPWB Rahim Yar Khan chapter and Unicef here on Saturday.

He said that 178 children out of 330 retrieved so far belonged to Rahim Yar Khan and were handed over to their parents.

Some 300 children were getting Rs600 per month stipend, he said and added that six new non-formal schools would be opened for the camel jockey children in different areas of the district. He said the bureau had distributed bicycles among 141 children.

He said that eight unidentified camel jockey children were still in the child protection institute in Lahore.

District Naib Nazim Chaudhry Hassnain Zafar Warraich, EDO (Literacy) Arshad Javaid Awan, CPWB consultant Abdurrab Farooqi and resident director Farhan Aamer also spoke on the occasion.

REHABILITATION: The Action Aid Pakistan has organised a debate on the reconstruction and rehabilitation of earthquake affectees.