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Fazle Umar 229 (Association of the Handmaidens of God) in 1922. A magazine, Misbah , was intro- duced in 1926 solely for this organisation. Nasiratul Ahmadiyya (Female Helpers of God) comprises all female children between the ages of 7 and 15 years. The Nusrat Girls High School was established in 1928 and in 1951, Jamia Nusrat or the Ladies College started functioning in Rabwah, Pakistan. In December 1938 Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya (the Servants of Ahmadiyyat) was established. This organisation consisted of young men between the ages of 15 and 40. Atfalul Ahmadiyya (Children of Ahmadiyyat) was also set up to cater for the needs of boys under the age of 15 years. In 1940 Majlis Ansarullah (the Helpers of God) was also established for male members of the Community over the age of forty. These auxiliary organisations of the Community have remained in place from the time they were established until today. Each of these associations has its own office bearers and is constantly active in promoting the moral and spiritual values inculcated by Islam. One feature of the training of all sections of the Community, which is thus bound together in affectionate ties of brotherhood and sisterhood, is that all members under the auspices of their particular association carry out without discrimination programmes of manual labour, designed to uphold the dignity of labour. The female sections also carry out programmes designed to stimulate their artistic faculties and to train them in the various branches of domestic science and household duties. E d U C AT IO n A n d T R A I n I n G From the very beginning of his Khilafat, Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih II [ra] was very keen on promoting literacy and education in all sections of the Community. He paid special attention to the education of women. As a result of his directions and the methods that he adopted for the achievement of his purpose in this regard, the average