Pakistan on Universal Children’s Day 1964
A commemorative postage stamp on the Universal Children’s Day :
Issued by Pakistan
Issued on Oct 5, 1964
Design : The theme of the design is child education. A slate and a wooden slab is shown in the design and first six alphabets of Bengali appear on the slate, whereas on the wooden slab hand of a child is shown scribbling Urdu alphabets. The words ‘Universal Children Day October 5, 1964’, the denomination and the word ‘Pakistan’ in English, Urdu and Bengali also appear on the stamp.
Type : Stamp, Postal Used
Denomination : 15 Paisa
Colour : Vandyke Brown
Size of Stamp : 28.6 x 34 mm.
Size of Print : 26 x 31.5 mm.
Perforation Gauge : 13 x 13 (c)
Quantity Printed : 15,00,000
No. of stamps in each sheet : 50
Process of Printing : Intaglio
Printers : The Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Ltd., Karachi
About :
- “Today’s children are to–morrow’s citizens”. Children are admittedly a delicate, sensitive but a virtually important section of national life demanding tremendous effort, loving thought and immense care. Conscious of its responsibilities towards children, Pakistan along with a number of other nations, observes the first Monday in October every year as the “Universal Children Day”. This year the day falls on the 5th October, 1964.
- The purpose of celebrating Universal Children Day is to remind ourselves of our duties towards children, as parents, as teachers and as citizens. The programme also aims at inculcating in children a sense of responsibility towards others and of encouraging them to develop to the fullest, their inherent faculties.
- In Pakistan the Day is sponsored by the Pakistan Council for Child Welfare in co-operation with the Central and Provincial Governments, the social welfare agencies, educational and other civic agencies of the country. The Council is the watchdog for the child. It studies and points out the weaknesses in the social structure and is constantly drawing the attention of the Government, the public and the parents to the special need of children. This is being done through the celebration of the Universal Children Day, through conferences, through studies and recommendations, through publications and press and radio publicity. The council takes a keen interest in promoting talent in children. It also organises periodical exhibitions of their paintings and hand work.
- The council is also running two pilot services in Karachi. These services are provided through the “Ashiana” and the “Nasheman”. The East–Pakistan Council of Child Welfare has now set up the first rehabilitation centre for disabled children in Dacca. “Nasheman” is a home for girls who are in need of care and protection. Here the girls are given education and training in home-crafts according to their special needs and problems. In “Ashiana” residential care is given to foundling babies and also to babies whose parents are temporarily unable to adequate arrangements for them due to some emergency such as the sickness or death of the mother.
- It is most encouraging to see how happy and thriving are all the babies who have been placed in families.
- With the compliments of the Director-General, Pakistan Post Office, Karachi.
