An environmental impact is defined as any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, resulting from a facility’s activities, products, or services. In other words it is the effect that people's actions have on the environment. For example, when volatile organic compounds are released into the environment, the effect or impact is pollution in the form of smog, in this case being negative. These actions leave some impacts on environment which can be harmful or beneficial for people themselves. Like It can go other way as a person picking up litter can have a beneficial impact on the local environment. But in this modern world the focus on inventing new technology is so intense that the dream of disease free world is left behind and the industrial fuel, gases and private transportation has damaged the ozone layer which leads to the polluted earth. Because of that people are loosing their immunity and getting diseased including respiratory issues, allergies and more fatal problems. Women, old and children are considered to be physically weak than men. Children are much affected by the environment because they are in their developmental process that’s why the changes of climate or environmental seems to be more visible on them. So Social Work Department decided to arrange a seminar on Environmental Impacts on Children in collaboration with a renowned NGO Search for Justice on 12th March 2020 at IT Hall, Lahore College for Women University. The details of seminar are given below: 

Barrister Rafay Alam  (Environmental Expert and lawyer), Ms. Nida Usman Chaudhry (Founder Lahore Education And Research Network [Learn]), Ms. Farah Rasheed (WWF Pakistan), Ms. Navaira Fatima (Lecturer Social Work Department) and Ms. Irum Shahid (Chairperson of Social Work Department) were present as speakers. The event was attended by a large number of students along with the faculty members. 

Mr Rafay Aalam talked about the importance of clean environment and its impact on children, he also highlighted the legislative approaches regarding environmental issues. Ms. Nida Usman talked about children health and Ms. Farah Rasheed shared the environmental issues like global warming and more others. Ms Navaira and Ms. Irum Shahid also talked about the topic. 

Survey:

A survey was conducted to obtain responses, views and suggestions of participants for the 

awareness of environmental issues:

• 90% agreed that poor health and lifestyle is because of environmental issues. 
• 54% agreed that environment is much responsible for the development of the country.
• 20% agreed that people themselves are responsible for the pollution.
• 48% agreed that government is responsible for the polluted environment.
• 70% agreed that modern world has made atmosphere more toxic and harmful.
• 95% agreed that private transportation is a big source of pollution.
• 63% Industries and transportation are a big factor for global warming 

Suggestion:

Following measures need to be taken for an ideal environment for children:

• Awareness  of keeping yourself safe should be provided at every level.
• Plant more trees for healthy environment.
• Personal hygiene is must to keep environment clean.
• Try to use more public transportation for less pollution.
• Use more organic and natural products except of using or producing artificial.
• Eco friendly products should be used more than the other.
• Industrial wastes should be disposed with a lot of supervision for environmental protection.  

Registrar
Lahore college for Women University,
Lahore

Entrepreneurship is a key driver of economic growth and job creation. In addition, self-employment is a response to non-availability of existing jobs. In view of its importance a seminar on entrepreneurship was held for students of Lahore College for Women University(LCWU), Jhang Campuson Thursday 12^th March 2020. The seminar attracted about 300 students, faculty of LWCU and CVAS. It was a collaborative effort of department of Economics, Management Sciences and ORIC of LCWU Jhang campus.

The venue for the seminar was the auditorium of CVAS (College of veterinary & Animal Sciences), Jhang. The topic of the seminar was “How to generate innovative business idea” and was delivered by the guest speaker, Hafiz Awais Afzal (a young entrepreneur and founder of Rehnumai).The presentation described how an entrepreneurial approach is necessary to develop employability skills.  Dr. Muhammad Arfan Zaman, CVAS, Jhang also presented his views on entrepreneurship.The seminar was interactive as participants made meaningful contributions to the discussion.

Fulbright MS and PhD scholarships for which deadline to apply is May 13, 2020 which is funded by the Government of Pakistan and managed by the United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) under Fulbright policies and regulations.

Higher Education Commission (HEC) Islamabad is arranging a video conference session with your university through its Video Conference Team on Monday, April 6, 2020 from 11:00AM to 1:00PM, for orientation of the said scholarship where USEFP and HEC will brief the universities and potential applicants/students of universities.

The undersigned has been directed to request you to direct University’s Administration to get this information disseminate among relevant students so that maximum number of students attend the video conference session to avail this scholarship opportunity.

The Brooke Pakistan is doing highly commendable work to improve  health and welfare of animals and animal owners in coalmines in Pakistan using a One Health framework. On 10th March, 2020, they successfully launched  their new policy brief which includes very important recommendations to remedy the unfortunate prevailing circumstances where coal mine workers and their donkeys experience serious hardships. Dr Amina Obaid Khawaja from LCWU was invited to the launch as coordinator of Animal Welfare and Protection Society, LCWU. She was accompanied by two students Fatima Zeeshan and Maham Salahddin from BS year III. These students will be doing their ACP project in collaboration with Brooke for the welfare of donkeys working at brick kilns. 

It was revealed during the study that the donkeys at coalmines suffered from gastrointestinal tract and respiratory problems, eye problems, work related injuries, poor body condition, malnutrition, substandard living conditions, and poor sanitation. improve. It was recommended that these animals must be provided access to veterinary health services through mobile ambulance . They rarely get any veterinary care. Free first aid kits to the owners of these donkeys should be given so that they get initial medical care well in time. Mine rescue department should be trained on how to rescue working animals in case of emergency or disaster. Besides this, there is a need to bring behavioral change among mine owners and workers so that they develop empathy towards the donkeys that contribute a lot to their economic well being.

We are grateful to the worthy Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Bushra Mirza for providing us with the opportunity to benefit from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) workshop titled “Role of Cognitive Behavioural Interventions in Improving Psychological Impact of Parents of Children affected with Emotional and Behavioural Disorders” at Lahore College for Women University (LCWU), Lahore. On Thursday March 6, 2020, Professor Dr. Talat Sohail, Chairperson, Department of Applied Psychology organised this CBT workshop for MS Health Psychology students. This event was hosted by Dr. Saima Eman, Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology, LCWU with Ms. Maryam Hassan, Lecturer in Psychology, LCWU.

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Irfan, Head of Department of Psychiatry, Peshawar Medical College conducted the CBT workshop with Dr. Madeeha Latif, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS).

We had clinical psychologists and psychiatrists from Lahore and Karachi. Ms. Mirrat Gul, Mirrat Gul Clinical Psychologist Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, Dr. Imran Ijaz Haider, Head of Department of Psychiatry, Fatima Memorial Hospital, Ms. Maria Bukhari, Clinical Psychologist and CBT practitioner, Psychres, Karachi, Ms. Falahat Maqbool, neuropsychologist, (DUHS), Karachi, Dr. Kiran Ishfaq, senior clinical psychologist at Psychiatry ward, Jinnah hospital, Lahore and Dr. Imran Shareef, Senior Registrar, Department of Psychiatry, Mayo hospital, Lahore were the attendees.

The workshop participants introduced themselves and described their own and others experiences about behaviour problems in children and problems with parenting. After a brainstorming session on problematic behaviours, there was a PowerPoint presentation on CBT. The participants were given a sheet of emoticons and they were asked to label the emotions shown in the emoticons. Later on those emotions were discussed.

During tea break the participants were given certain guidelines to work on a certain hypothetical case. All participants performed a role-play in pairs of therapist and the client on stage to present their work on their hypothetical case. They showed how they would deal with the client using CBT. The downward arrow technique was explained which demonstrated a pathway to the cause of irrational beliefs of the client. The example of Socratic dialogue was also mentioned. Take home messages were discussed at the end.

The participants were provided the email address and the website name through which they could obtain the details of membership of Pakistan Association of Cognitive Therapists (PACT). Dr. Saima Eman was asked about the patient populations with whom CBT could be used. The answer was very enlightening about CBT use. CBT could be used with uneducated populations. CBT could be culturally adapted and the instructions could be followed with the help of somebody at the home. . CBT could be used with audio recordings as well.  CBT could be used with persons with mild dementia and individuals whose cognitive ability was intact. Dr. Imran Ijaz asked about insight-oriented therapy. The presenters said that nowadays pure CBT is used. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Irfan was provided with a shield by Prof. Dr. Talat Sohail. The guests were served with the lunch at the end of the workshops and the participants were given certificates.