NVM to launch awareness campaign on Population issues: Saif
By Ali Imran

ISLAMABAD—The National Voluntary Movement (NVM) would launch a massive awareness campaign on Population issues in collaboration with the Ministry of Population Welfare.
This was revealed by Deputy Chairman NVM Barrister Dr. Muhammad Ali Saif here in an exclusive talk with the APP.
He said the population issue was a major problem faced by the nation and it needed prompt attention. “Population in Pakistan is growing enormously and around 3 million people are added to our population every year. This is a huge burden on our economy and result into destitution, starvation and premature deaths of children,” said Barrister Saif adding that this was a national issue which needed collective efforts.
“In first phase of the campaign, the NVM would launch a mass awareness drive which would be followed by field work by trained volunteers,” he said and added that the NVM volunteers would take the masses into confidence regarding the population menace.
Population menace breeds poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, and illiteracy. Population welfare aims at better facilities of life for the human beings. This is meant to ensure better education, grooming and qualities of life for the community which is a great service to the mankind,” said the young Barrister.
He said the NVM was imparting training to the young volunteers enabling them to be productive citizens and serve the country in an amicable manner.
Barrister Saif further said the trained volunteers of the NVM are not only contributing in different spheres of life but also they can properly handle emergency situations.
“The NVM has also launched special courses for women volunteers so as they could contribute in helping hands to the women and children of their own families in all sorts of calamity situations,” said the NVM Deputy Chairman. Dr. Saif further said the government was ensuring women empowerment and all aspects were being addressed in this regard. “The government, under the visionary leadership President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, was making sure that women and other weaker segments of the society are empowered economically, socially, legally and politically,” said the deputy chairman NVM, in future, would collaborate with the Ministry of Women Development and Youth Affairs to address the gender issues.