Labour and Social Devellopment Minister, Jameel bin Mohammed Ali Humaidan, today paid a visit to the Al-Nabih Saleh.

The meeting is within the series of the series of field visits made by the minister to a number of villages to implement the directives of His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa to service ministers to visit villages and towns to meet citizens, identify their needs and fulfill them.
The minister held an open meeting with the villagers at the Al-Nabih Saleh Cultural and Social Club, in the presence of MP, Sheikh Majeed Mohsen Al-Asfoor, Shura Council members, Ahmi Mahdi Al-Haddad and Sadiq Eid Hussain Al-Rahmah, Capital Trustees’ Board Chairman, Mohammed Ali Al-Khuzae, as well as dignataries and municipal councilors.

The minister listened to the citizens’ remarks about their needs from government services in the labour and social development sectors.

Humaidan, in a statement, highlighted the Labour and Social Development Ministry’s services, including employment and rehabilitation projects, social care programmes, as well as support to low-income Bahraini families to empower them economically and socially, and supporting entrepreneurial projects of individuals and productive families.

He stressed the importance of being informed about the services delivered by various government departments, as well as about the mechanisms to benefit from them, especially regarding daily life services and programmes aimed at empowering productive families.

He highlighted the importance of the role of NGOs, being essential partners to the government in implementing development programmes, calling for more coordination between government officials and the citizens’ representatives to better achieve the goals of sustainable development across the kingdom.

Those present lauded HRH Premier’s directives to officials to visit villages and towns to identify the citizens’ needs and meet them, praising the efforts of the Labour and Social Development Ministry in this regard.

They highlighted the obstacles facing them while receiving the Ministry’s development services, especially regarding rehabilitating and integrating youth in the labour market, insurance against unemployment, elederly care, children’s protection, cost of living allowance, social insurance, handicap allowance and developing the capacities of the beneficiaries of the “Khutwa” (step) and domestic projects.

MP Sheikh Majeed Al-Asfoor praised the services provided by the government to citizens of the region, calling for the need to intensify efforts to integrate job-seekers in the private sector institutions, and to inform the citizens about all the social services delivered to various segments, individuals and families.

Treasurer at Al Nabih Saleh Charity Society, lawyer Mohammed Al-Sheikh Mansoor, pointed out to the need to provide a land lot to set up a building for the Al Nabih Saleh Charity Society, calling for more cooperation between the Labour and Social Development Ministry and charity organisations to deliver services to beneficiaries, especially needy and low-income families.

Source : BNA