ISLAMABAD: Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) would encourage the startups for beneficiaries and young entrepreneurs so that they may exit poverty and become financially empowered. After launching E-commerce initiative, BISP is on a drive to promote employment of its beneficiaries through skill development and job placement by partnering with entrepreneurs. State Minister and BISP Chairperson Marvi Memon stated this during her visit to best startups in town in a bid to explore employment opportunities for BISP beneficiaries. The BISP chairperson visited Meraki Art Gallery, Delivery Ten, Every Catalogue, Kids and Moms and FAST University. In the initial phase of BISP-Entrepreneurial partnership, Meraki Art Gallery would train and work with young artists and BISP beneficiaries to produce paintings that would be exhibited in Pakistani embassies abroad. Delivery Ten would deliver beneficiary products across the country and BISP beneficiaries would be trained in data entry by Every Catalogue and ten BISP children would attend Montessori free of cost at Kids and Moms Montessori under corporate social responsibility (CSR). The BISP chairperson urged the students of FAST University to come up with innovations benefiting the illiterate and poor of the country. She appreciated the students for Smart Top-up Kiosk project with salient features of easy load, utility bill payment and online money transfers. She said that the BISP is dedicated to empower and bring dignity and meaning to life of its beneficiaries adding that the BISP not only supports its beneficiaries financially but also endeavors to make them self-reliant and financially empowered by adopting different poverty exit strategies.