He was speaking at the She Leads Conference by Kiran Sitara, the Indus Health Network and Interactive Research and Development in collaboration with the education department at the PAF Museum on Saturday. ‘Women should be encouraged to learn entrepreneurial skills’The CM said the Kiran Sitara Adolescent Health and Leadership programme achieves that by mobilising young girls at secondary schools. The CM said he is convinced that investing in education for girls and women is the key to unlocking advances across society. The Kiran Sitara programme – part of ‘Aao TB Mitao’ – aims to enhance leadership skills of adolescent girls by providing trainings to boost their confidence, improve educational performance and ameliorate their communication competency. Currently the programme is teaching young girls how to identify basic symptoms of tuberculosis and training them to send people to key healthcare facilities for further testing.

Source: The Express Tribune December 17, 2017 08:37 UTC