Registration of volunteers to start after Eid: Durrani
Staff Report

ISLAMABAD—The registration process of volunteers for the earthquake hit areas, would be initiated within a few days, State Minister for Sports, Culture and Youth Affairs Muhammad Ali Durrani said.
The services of international volunteers were being hired for providing training to the these volunteers from across the country, he told newsmen.
Under the National Volunteer Programme (NVP) each volunteer would be required to serve at least for 30 days in a quake zone. However, the time span could be decreased or increased depending on availability of the volunteer, he remarked.
Female volunteers would be deployed in the education and health sectors, he said.
Complete database of NVP campaign would be maintained. Proper grouping of the volunteers would be done for making the relief activities result oriented.
Trauma centres would also be set up to help normalise the lives of the quake survivors.
A separate cell would be established in NVP for acknowledging and rewarding the services of each and every volunteer. And they would be treated as a distinguished and respectable citizen of the country, he said.
NVP was aimed at supplementing the relief activities of Pakistan Army. The volunteers would be deployed alongwith Army units busy in quake hit areas.
Coordinated support of volunteers was needed till complete rehabilitation of the quake affectees, he concluded.