KARACHI: Envoy visits NGO office

Published April 16, 2003

KARACHI, April 15: Mark Sedwill, British High Commissioner in Islamabad, and David Pearey, British Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi, visited the Pakistan Voluntary Health and Nutrition Association (PAVHNA) here on Tuesday.

Executive Director PAVHNA, Dr Yasmin Sabeeh Qazi, on the occasion, gave an overview of PAVHNA’s activities work in the field of population and reproductive health.

She said the UK-based Department For International Development (DFID) was the major donor for PAVHNA that had supported a community-based project since 1994.

“At present PAVHNA, through its 17 partners in Sindh, Balochistan and the NWFP, is providing reproductive health services through its field staff, covering a population of 2.4 million.”—PPI

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