The document provides information about welfare services for women, senior citizens, and persons with disabilities in Pakistan. It discusses the problems each group faces, existing government facilities and programs to support welfare, relevant laws and organizations, and recommendations to improve welfare. For women, it outlines issues like discrimination, violence, and employment challenges, as well as facilities, laws, and organizations providing support. For senior citizens, it discusses health, financial, and social problems of aging, and planning options to assist them. For persons with disabilities, it defines types of disabilities, issues of education, employment, poverty, and human rights, and recommends improving data collection, policies, and support services.

1. WomenWelfare, Senior Citizen
Welfare And Welfare Services For
PersonsWith Disability
Submitted To: Sir Shafique Sahab
Submitted By: Group No. 5
Ruksana Qasim Roll No. 37
Khurshid Manzoor Roll No. 36
Muhammad Iftakhar Roll No. 13
Subject: SocialWork
MSc. Sociology 2nd Samester
Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan

2. Welfare and Concepts of Welfare:
• What is welfare?
• Welfare derives from wel fare, that is from “well in its still familiar sense and fare,
primarily understood as a journey or arrival but later also as a supply of food”
(Williams 1976, 281).
• The word welfare has historically been related to happiness and prosperity, whereas
its current understanding first emerged in the 20th century (Williams 1976).
• The concept of welfare has to be understood in the historical and cultural context
within which it is embedded. However, there is no intention here to enter into a long
historical analysis of the concept. The Welfare State Reader has a section on
approaches to welfare and many references to welfare, but this is only in connection
with other words, namely asymmetries, institutions, reforms, regimes, and state
(Pierson & Castles 2006).
• Definition of Welfare:
• Welfare means faring or doing well. It is a comprehensive term, and refers to the
physical, mental, moral and emotional well-being of an individual. The term welfare
is a relative concept, relative in time and space. It, therefore, varies from time to
time, region to region and from country to country.

3. WomenWelfare
Presented by Rukhsan Qasim

4. Problems Faced by Woman
• Gender Discrimination
• Violence againstWoman
• Honour Killing
• Acid Attacks
• DomesticViolence
• Target killing
• Sharia Law in Pakistan
• Hadood Ordinance
• Female Literacy Issues in RuralAreas of
Pakistan
• Status of Women’s Health In Pakistan
• Family Planning Scheme
• Female Employment
• Challenges Faced by Women Workers
• Harassment at work place
• Lower Pay-scale
• MarriedWorkingWomen
• Negative attitudes of male co-workers
• Transport

5. Facilities Available for Women
• Special Institutions:
• Ombudsperson:
• Punjab Commission on the
Status of Women (PCSW):
• Punjab Day Care Fund
Society:
• Working Women Hostels
• Annual Development Program
• Empowerment Packages:
• Public Sector Employment :
• Maternity Leave:
• Day Care Centers:
• Women Entrepreneurs
• Interest Free Loans for Women:
• Other Measures

6. Laws and Rules:
• The Punjab Fair Representation of Women Act-2014
• The Punjab Protection against Harassment of Women Amended Act-2012
• The Punjab Commission on the Status of Women Act 2014
• The Punjab Land Revenue (Amendment) Act 2012
• Stamp Act, 1964
• Waiver of Registration Fee for Women
• The Punjab Partition of Immoveable Property Act, 2012
• Anti-Women Practices Act 2011
• Domestic violence (Prevention and Protection) Act 2012
• Prevention of Acid crimes incidents
• Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929
• The Punjab Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill 2015

7. Women Welfare Organizations
• All Pakistan women’s Association:
• Acid Survivors Foundation, Pakistan:
• Aurat Foundation
• Kaarvan Foundation
• Sarim Burney WelfareTrust
• Shahina Aftab Foundation (SAF)
• Bedari

8. Welfare of Senior Citizens
Presented By: Muhammad Iftikhar

9. Senior Citizens:
• Elderly persons, usually more than sixty or sixty-five years of age.
• People in the United States who are more than sixty years of age are commo
nly referred to as senior citizens or seniors.
These terms refer to people whose stage in life is generally called old age, th
ough there is no precise way to identify the final stage of a normal life span.
• People are said to be senior citizens when they reach the age of sixty or sixt
y five because
those are the ages at which most people retire from the workforce.

10. The Problem of Ageing:
• Physical and mental health:
• Financial capacity:
• lack of financial stability and love.
• Elderly people die miserably due to lack of food and medical attention.
• They develop psychotic disorders due to depression and dejection.
• They develop certain diseases by not eating healthy food which is not providing the
necessary multi-vitamins needed to survive in the old age.
• Employees Old age benefits pension money is used by their family members.
• They have very limited social life.
• Lack of religious and basic education deprived them from doing anything useful to
pass the time.
• Children of even well settled families tend to ignore grandparents who just need to
share love with them and focus.

11. Planning Options for Aging Seniors
There are a number of strategies that are useful for assisting aging seniors
plan for their final years of life. We will discuss these planning options in
greater detail in future articles. For now, here is a list of some of the planning
options that can be pursued.
• Care management advice for caregivers
• Implementing estate planning with asset preservation strategies
• Targeted planning strategies to meet specific needs of the senior and the
family
• Designing and implementing a formal final years plan.

12. Major Achievements & Programmes Underway
• National Senior CitizenTask Force
• Programmers/Projects Undertaken ForThe Benefit Of Senior
Citizens:
• Old People’s Homes:
• International Plan of Action:

13. Process/Vision forThe Future:
•Senior CitizensTalent Pool
•Social and Economic Security:
•Special HandlingCounters at Public Places:

14. Services forThe Persons with Disability
Presented By: Khurshid Manzoor

15. Definition of Disability:
• the condition of being disabled
• limitation in the ability to pursue an occupation because of a physical or
mental impairment; also : a program providing financial support to one
affected by disability (went on disability after the injury)
• lack of legal qualification to do something
• a disqualification, restriction, or disadvantage.
• A condition (such as an illness or an injury) that damages or limits a person's
physical or mental abilities
• The condition of being unable to do things in the normal way : the condition
of being disabled

16. The Prevalence of Disabilities
• National census 1998 reports 2.49% prevalence
• Physically Handicapped 19%
• Mentally Handicapped & Insane 14%
• Multiple Disability 8.21%
• Visually Impaired 8.6%
• Hearing Impaired 7.40%
• Others 43.33%
• WHO estimates 6% of the population as disabled
• Small scale in depth studies claim 6 to 14%
• Of 180 million population the number of persons with disabilities range from 4 to
8 million in Pakistan
• 45% of these are children under age 18
• At least 3 million adults (both genders included) need rehabilitation through some
kind of employment.

17. Division of Disability:
• Head Injuries - Brain Disability:
• Vision Disability:
• Hearing Disability:
• Cognitive or Learning Disabilities:
• Psychological Disorders and Injuries
• Invisible Disabilities:

18. Defining the Meaning of ICF:
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, also known
as ICF, is a classification of the health components of functioning and
disability. The World Health Assembly on May 22, 2001, approved the
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and its
abbreviation of "ICF." This classification was first created in 1980 and then
called the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and
Handicaps, or ICIDH by WHO to provide a unifying framework for classifying
the health components of functioning and disability.

19. Education of Disable Children:
• At least 2 million school age children are at high risk
• In spite of all good efforts and spending only 40,000 (2%) have access to
special education
• Another 2 % are in ordinary schools with out much academic support
• Special education only caters for the urban children
• About 1.5 million rural children have no access to education
• Right to education is still a big question mark
• The children without disabilities have far better access (above 65%) to
education

20. Disability and Employment:
• The relationship between Employment and disability is two way: disability
adds to the risk of poverty and conditions of poverty increase the risk of
disability.
• At least 20% of the people living below the poverty line suffer from
disability as well.
• Disability is a relative term like poverty, relying on interpretation of a
‘normal activity’
• Norms vary: an impairment considered to be disabling in one environment
may not be in another.
• Disability is inherently difficult to observe; and required subjective
assessment.The subjectivity of the judgment makes disability a political
issue.

21. Disability Leads to Poverty:
• Disability leads to poverty in the following ways;
• Loss of income
• Additional cost of disability management
• Exclusion from services and/or social and community activities because of
stigmatization and other negative attitude of the society
• Reduced opportunities for work for the families with children having disability
• Low expectations in terms of capacity to earn
• Lack of technical and financial support
• Disabling environment particularly with reference to social services such as
healthcare, education, protection
• Unfriendly job market

22. Poverty Leads to Disability:
Poverty creates following conditions which increases the risk of disability;
• Overburden and impoverished family (not able to meet basic needs)
• Poor nutrition and poor body defense against disease
• Illiteracy and lack of awareness about health and welfare
• Poor health due unaffordable healthcare cost
• Lack of access to basic services that prevent disability
• Over-working more often in risky physical labor environments
• Un-employment, under-employment and low wage rate
• Changing Perspectives of Disability There is a shift in understanding of
disability from a condition of “abnormality” to a case of “human diversity”
with equal rights and privileges

23. Disability A Case of Poverty Alleviation:
• Persons with disabilities are poorest of the poor
• They constitute a “population most at risk”
• Disability is seen as a “burden on society”
• Poverty cannot be alleviated without addressing the needs of persons with
disabilities
• Persons with disabilities are “human capital”
• Disability is a “business case”
• There is a loss of GDP if people with disabilities do not have access to decent
work and employment
• Social protection plan for persons with profound disabilities

24. Disability A Case of Human Rights:
• Persons with disabilities have right to social, political and economical
inclusion
• This inclusion requires barrier free access to state resources and services to
ensure meaningful participation
• Persons with disabilities are “claimants” to a dignified life as citizen of the
state
• The public institutions are “duty bearers” as safeguard against all forms of
discrimination
• The creation of “enabling environment” should be the target instead of
“rehabilitation”
• There is a need to welcome and accommodate “human diversity” instead of
labeling it as a “handicap” and a case clinical treatment.

25. International Commitments:
• UN Declaration of Human Rights [1948],
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child [1989],
• World Declaration on Education for All [1990],
• UN Standard Rules on Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
[1993],
• Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action [1994],
• Dakar Framework for Action [2000],
• UN Millennium Development Goals [2001]
• National Policy for Persons with Disabilities [2002]
• UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2007
• Sustainable Development Goals SGDs 2015

26. Access to following services is extremely limited:
• Early identification and intervention
• Appropriate education and training
• Health care and allied services
• Recreation and entertainment
• Social and political inclusion and participation
• Decent work and employment
• Financial support and social protection
• Legal protection and access to justice
• Old age benefits
• Inclusive Education

27. The only way forward:
• The dream of 100% enrollment as perceived in the UN Millennium
Development Goals can not come true without addressing the educational
need of children with disabilities
• Special schools, in spite of all their benefits, have failed to nurture a natural
growth of these children because of social segregation.
• The cost of special education is Rs.30,000 per child per year as compared to
Rs.2500 for a child studying in an ordinary school.
• The most economical solution would be to make the primary school
functioning at the doorstep open to all children through inclusive education.
• The Definition of the Role of IE

28. Legislation and Policy Reforms
• Disabled Persons (Employment and Rehabilitation) Ordinance, 1981:
• National Policy for Persons with Disabilities (2002):
• National Plan of Action for Persons with Disabilities, 2006:
• Special Citizens Act, 2008:
• Special Citizens (Right to Concessions in Movement) Act, 2009:
• Duty Free Import of Car:
• Disabled Persons (Employment and Rehabilitation) Ordinance, 1981; Government of
Pakistan
• National Plan of Action for the Persons with Disabilities, 2006; Directorate General of
Special Education, Government of Pakistan.
• Special Citizens Act, 2008; Government of Pakistan.
• Special Citizens (Right to Concessions in Movement) Act, 2009; Government of Pakistan
• Banking Services

29. Proposed Initiatives and recommendations:
• Collection of Reliable Data:
• Improvements in Policy, Legislative and Enforcement Framework
• Performance of the NationalTrust for the Disabled Persons:
• Micro Credit Facilities:
• Simplification of Procedure to get transport concessions:
• Continuous Media Campaign:
• Brail as Optional Subject:

30. Question Please?