By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,
Bhopal: The Delhi-based Zakat Foundation of India (ZFI) is organizing a national workshop for “Economic empowerment of the deprived through timely information and its utilization” here on Tuesday (March 8th) at Noor-us-Sabah Palace Hotel.
The workshop would be conducted by experts and successful activists under the watchful eyes of ZFI president Dr. Syed Zafar Mahmood. In the workshop the participants would be apprised of welfare schemes for minorities and how to monitor their implementation making use of the Right to Information Act (RTI). The timings of the workshop is from 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. with lunch break in between.
This is the 11th in the series of the workshops held all over India by ZFI. The workshops were successfully conducted earlier at Delhi, Bahraich, Lucknow & Rampur (all three UP), Patna (Bihar), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Mumbai (Maharashtra), Kolkata (West Bengal), Malappuram & Calicut (both Kerala).
After Bhopal it would to be held in Srinagar (J & K) on March 20. It may be mentioned here that ZFI was established in 1997 as a grassroots level organization by concerned residents of New Delhi.
It is a Non-Governmental/Non-Profit Organization which collects and utilizes ‘Zakat’ or charity for socially beneficial projects in a transparent and organized manner. ([email protected])