Khushhali Microfinance Bank Limited (KMBL) organized multiple motivational sessions for women in Shah Allah Ditta, Islamabad, and Gujar Khan to mark both the International Day of Rural Women and International Day of Eradication of Poverty, according to a press release issued by the bank. The aim of the session was to acknowledge the critical role that rural and indigenous women can play to enhance rural development; leading towards eradicating rural poverty. A successful micro-entrepreneur and a famous YouTube celebrity, Shahid Hussain Joya, conducted the session in Shah Allah Ditta on how to start a business and to scale it using minimum resources at hand. Another session was arranged by the bank for rural women in Gujar Khan where Dr S Murtaza Hassan Andrabi, Director, Animal Sciences Institute, National Agricultural Research Centre, provided information to the audience on animal and poultry diseases, prevention, treatment, feed and breeding. KMBL President Ghalib Nishtar commented on the sessions, “Khushhali Microfinance Bank is actively working to increase financial inclusion of females in rural areas. We understand that while most rural women entrepreneurs are involved in only a limited range of economic activities, there is a dire need to work on micro level towards creating more opportunities.”