Senior citizens: old homes and hostels to be set up in Islamabad

The government will set up old homes and hostels at a cost of over 56 million rupees in the Federal Capital to facilitate senior citizens. These homes and hostels would be established by Staff Welfare Organisation (SWO), while separate hostels would also be set up for working men and women, Director General, SWO Mukhtar Ali Malik told APP.
He said SWO is the sole institution of its kind, which facilitates and provides assistance to federal government employees exclusively. Many other projects that include, construction of compound wall, extension of parking space, other sundry works at Aabpara Community Centre, Ladies Industrial Home-cum-Work Order centres at Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar.
Also improvement and up-gradation of Holiday Home No 1 at Murree, hostels for working men at Islamabad and expansion of the existing hostel for working women in G-7 Islamabad are in execution phase and to be completed by 2010. At present he said SWO is facilitating the federal government employees across the country.