HOPE’s Development towards Women Empowerment

If you empower a woman with correct training, education and care, you are developing the future. But unfortunately we live in a society where women are treated inferior to men. There are also cultural norms barriers which don’t allow women to move forward for their own selves. As nobody understands the need and value of women’s education that how important it is. Educating a woman means you are educating your entire generation. When you educate a woman, society becomes stronger and prosperous. HOPE – an Education NGO in Pakistan has established formal and informal schools to educate individuals a quality education.

After establishment of schools, HOPE took step for women. HOPE - an NGO in Pakistan established a Sewing Center with the collaboration of P&G to help them grow their skills. Sewing, cutting are the basics which every woman must know. It teaches them how to cut, sew, embroidery. It will help them to stitch clothes of different styles with different types of embroideries. With this skill set women can earn themselves by sitting at their homes, they can teach other girls sewing and cutting. It will be beneficial for their own self as well that they don’t need to wait for other people to stitch their clothes. Furthermore by gaining these skills they will be able to start and run their own work of clothes shop and can earn competently.

Sewing center is divided in three levels of Sewing / Cutting / Embroidery. Women are taught all these skills to make them able to work for their own self and support their families. These centers are located in Karachi - Manzoor Colony, Bilal Colony, Zia Colony, Thatta, Badin, Sujawal, Muzaffargarh and Muzaffarabad (AJK).

Under the leadership of Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla - A Child Specialist in Karachi, HOPE is continuously working for the rights of women, to make them able to stand on their own feet without being dependent on anyone in the society.

HOPE's aim to eliminate hunger

Food is a basic necessity of life after air and water. Every human being needs food to live a healthy life. Food acts as a fuel for our body to generate energy which helps our body function properly. This is why World Food Day is celebrated for the cause of tackling hunger. Its aim is to raise awareness regarding the problem of hunger. It is focused towards underprivileged communities, particularly women and children to make their living standard better. The basic purpose of celebrating World Food Day is to highlight the problem of hunger around the world and to come together as a community to declare the commitment of eliminating hunger worldwide, also its purpose is a call for action to make healthy diet available and affordable for everyone. World Food Day is celebrated on 16th Oct globally.

HOPE - A Health NGO in Pakistan joins hands with different donors to perform humanitarian activities in order to benefit the people of rural areas. HOPE works for the sake of humanity to provide them basic necessities of life. HOPE distributes food in less privileged areas where people have no reach towards a healthy diet due to the deficiency of food. HOPE’s aim is to provide quality and healthy food to the ones who hardly get one time meal due to financial difficulties.

HOPE - An NGO in Pakistan targets the poor and needy people who live in far flung areas like Mujahid Colony, Bilal Colony, Ghaggar, Gadap, Badin, Thatta and Kachra kundi, it also focuses on underprivileged communities of other cities like Muzaffargarh, Dadu and other Northern areas of Pakistan. HOPE has been trying to support needy people from the very beginning to minimize the difficulties of their lives and enable them to live a healthy life.

Under the leadership of Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla - A Child Specialist in Karachi, HOPE is working day and night to serve humanity in the best possible manner by performing such philanthropic activities.

Multi-tasking – A way to success for her

Parisa, a 19 year old girl with a lot of dreams in her eyes. Being a brilliant student of Grade 7^th in HOPE school in Gadap. Apart from her regular studies, she is enrolled in vocational training for learning sewing and cutting for herself, she helps also in medical center getting training for health aid purpose. Now she has shown interest in computer training center.

HOPE - An Educational NGO in Pakistan along with the collaboration with P&G being the glowing candle in the darkness by providing equal opportunities of growth for girls and women to become financially strong and independent by educating them with different skills sets.

For this purpose, HOPE - An NGO in Pakistan established computer training center which is basically divided in three phases. The First phase is of Typing and Paint, 2^nd Phase is of MS OFFICE and the 3^rd phase is of Computer Graphics. HOPE’s qualified teachers are delivering their best to the students.

Parisa is in the first phase of computer training course and she’s learning with full zeal and zest. In the system of patriarchy, it is necessary for today’s girl or women to get education and learn different skills to make her existence in the society. A 19 year old is trying her best to pursue her dreams by getting a remarkable job in an office in the future and live a peaceful and successful life like many others. Parisa is setting an example for other girls to train yourself for the hurdles of life. HOPE and P&G together are creating opportunities for girls and women who are multi-tasking like Parisa and have the spark to move forward.

Under the leadership of Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla - A Child Specialist in Karachi, HOPE has been working continuously for the betterment of women and children to provide them a better future ahead.

Demonstration of P&G water purifier sachets at Mirpur District

As water is the essential component for all to live on earth. Because human body is made up of 70% water. Each person on earth requires liters of safe and clean water.

Enlightening the current situation of Mirpur District Azad Kashmir, due to severe earthquake, the areas besides the city, a small town Jatlan, and two small villages Manda and Afzalpur were among the worst-hit areas. The main road which runs alongside a river from Mangla to Jatla suffered major damage. Supply of water is badly affected. Almost 2500 people and around 248 of their houses were affected. In b these circumstances HOPE became the hope for earthquake victims.

Due to the current situation water supply is badly affected and damaged due to the worst condition of the areas, HOPE came as a light in the darkness. In samples of groundwater there are dust particles and bacteria which is the cause of diseases such as diarrhea, typhoid, intestinal worms and hepatitis.

HOPE-A Health NGO in Pakistan in collaboration with Procter & Gamble Pakistan, is making clean water accessible by distributing P&G Purifier of Water sachets to the underprivileged communities. P&G Purifier of Water sachets are used for preparing safe drinking water. One single sachet purifies up to 10 liters of brackish water. Compared with other products available in the market, P&G Purifier of Water leaves no salty or sour after-taste.

Hope’s team exposed the hazards of drinking unsafe and polluted water to majority of population in Mirpur District and educated them with the benefits of healthy clean water by P&G purifier.

HOPE-An NGO in Pakistan provides back-up support in the form of training, social marketing and advocacy of P&G Purifier to the socially deprived local population. HOPE team demonstrated the process of cleaning water using P&G Purifier’s sachets of Water in Mirpur District. Several people were present during the orientation where they learnt the importance of drinking clean water and how to prepare it by themselves at home. Each participant was provided a purifying kit that consists of a cooler, bucket, muslin cloth, spatula and 120 sachets of P&G Purifier of Water. The sole purpose of the activity was to benefit the people by providing them with the access of pure clean drinking water.

Under the leadership of Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla-A Child Specialist in Karachi, HOPE has been working constantly to improve the lives of the people in Mirpur District by creating awareness among them about the benefits of safe drinking water.

HOPEs Annual Ration Distribution Activity

A large size of population in Pakistan is deprived of the basic necessities of life. However, there is a silver lining on the darkening sky in the form of NGO’s like HOPE. HOPE – An NGO in Pakistan has been carrying out philanthropic activities since its inception, so that even the less privileged ones can obtain the basic necessities of life.

Communities residing in far flung areas across Karachi are indeed very poor. Hence, after Ramadan, HOPE, A Health NGO in Pakistan, did not forget them and provides help to them in the form of food, clothes and ration distribution. These areas include, Mujahid Colony, Bilal Colony, Ghaggar, Gadap, Badin, Thatta, Kachra kundi etc.

Ration bags were distributed at the door steps of needy families to avoid hurting their feelings. Vans were filled with food items and ration bags and sent to different slum areas of Karachi and rural areas of Sindh for the purpose of distribution among needy households.

The following are the locations where the ration was distributed: Mujahid Colony, Bilal Colony, Ghaggar, Gadap, Badin, Thatta, and last but not the least Kachra kundi.

The Field staff of HOPE distributed ration sacks to ensure that those needy folks are catered by the support of HOPE as always. HOPE has been trying its level best from the very beginning in assisting the population of these poverty stricken areas to minimize the difficulties of their lives for several years now, this time in the form of Ration distribution.

Dr. MubinaAgboatwalla- A Child Specialist in Karachi, leads HOPE towards achieving greater horizons and drags people out of their misery and sufferings by carrying out such philanthropic activities.