FJWU Organize Lecture on "Youth & Drug Abuse"

Rawalpindi: Fatima Jinnah Women University department of Women Research and Resource Center (WRRC) organized lecture on “Youth & Drug Abuse” Guest speaker was Mrs. Cristina Von Sperling Afridi Chairperson, Karim Khan Afridi Welfare Foundation (KKAWF).

The Chairperson presented the drug abuse problem in Pakistan in details and shared her personal loss which motivated her to stand up against this menace and to make Pakistan a drug-free country.

She said our society has those malicious and brutal elements, which causes traumas like Child abuse, domestic violence, rapes, human rights abuses like kidnapping and other kinds of traumas which leaves behind a lifetime of psychological effects on a child. Drug users need help. With our combined efforts they could be brought back to normalcy whereby they would eventually become active members of society.
Mrs. Cristina Von Sperling Afridi also talked about what bad effects of drug on women lives and said life is not easy work hard stay positive and stay strong for yourself.

In the last Mrs. Lubna Ghani educational consultant of (KKAWF) said that our mission is to disseminate knowledge on the adverse effects of drug use on individual’s, family and society and to break the taboos that exist around drug use and enable people to reach out for help. The Foundation aims to play a role of a catalyst for the youth and the communities they live in, by engaging federal and provincial governments to take up the task through policy making on drug production, prevention and use.

In the last Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Samina Amin Qadir and Director WRRC Dr. Shaheena Ayub Bhatti presented souvenirs to Mrs. Cristina Von Sperling Afridi and Mrs. Lubna Ghani.


Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Samina Amin Qadir and Director WRRC Dr. Shaheena Ayub Bhatti presenting souvenir to Mrs. Cristina Von Sperling Afridi.

Group photo at the end of session.