HOPE’s Relief Efforts For Flood Affectees Of Punjab & Generous Donation From Jaffar Public School

In keeping with its goals and traditions, HOPE, an NGO in Pakistan, already in preparation to distribute much needed ration and supplies to poor and needy families of Muzzafargarh, devasted in the recent floods and without any means of sustenanace. In this effort, HOPE a health oriented NGO in Pakistan, has been generously assisted by Jaffar Public School.

With HOPE’s formal school already in existence in Muzaffargarh, it will be in a better position to control and regulate the distribution of relief goods that will be brought in from Karachi. Jaffar Public School’s assistance has come in at a very appropriate time and will help greatly to further extend and strengthen the relief efforts. More people in need of assistance will be provided enough rations and supplies till the flood waters recede completely and they are fully rehabilitated.

HOPE’s chairperson, Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialist in Karachi, has always been the guiding force in organizing and implementing such relief activities with great success. Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialist in Karachi, personally participates in the relief efforts and in this case too, she will travel all the way to the rural areas of Muzaffargarh to ensure the relief activity is carried with efficiency and maximum number of flood affectees are benefitted.

HOPE’s Relief Efforts For Flood Affectees Of Punjab & Generous Donation From Fahim’s School System.

In keeping with its goals and traditions, HOPE, an NGO in Pakistan, already in preparation to distribute much needed ration and supplies to poor and needy families of Muzzafargarh, devasted in the recent floods and without any means of sustenanace. In this effort, HOPE a health oriented NGO in Pakistan, has been generously assisted in kind by Fahim’s School System.

With HOPE’s formal school already in existence in Muzaffargarh, it will be in a better position to control and regulate the distribution of relief goods that will be brought in from Karachi. Fahims Schools System’s assistance has come in at a very appropriate time and will help greatly to further extend and strengthen the relief efforts. More people in need of assistance will be provided enough rations and supplies till the flood waters recede completely and they are fully rehabilitated.

HOPE’s chairperson, Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialist in Karachi, has always been the guiding force in organizing and implementing such relief activities with great success. Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialist in Karachi, personally participates in the relief efforts and in this case too, she will travel all the way to the rural areas of Muzaffargarh to ensure the relief activity is carried with efficiency and maximum number of flood affectees are benefitted.

HOPE'S Qurbani Activity For Eid-ul-Adha

There is nothing dearer to Allah during the days of Eid al-Adha than the sacrificing of animals. Sacrifice, as practised by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) is an essential religious rite of the Muslims – replicating and comemorating  the sacrifice performed by Prophet Ibraham in its truest spirit and essence. God put Prophet Ibraham to a most difficult trial, the details of which are described in the Quran.

The aim of sacrifice, like all other fundamentals of Islam, is to imbibe piety and self righteousness. It also promotes the spirit of sacrifice for a right cause.

Giving meat to the poor and destitute as required when doing Qurbani spreads happiness so they may also enjoy the event of Eid-ul-Adha as a time of celebration and festivities. Keeping that in mind HOPE, an NGO inPakistan,www.hope-ngo.com  will endeavour with full zeal and fervor to spread this happiness to the poor and destitute of rural Sindh, namely, Thatta, Sujawal and Badin.  And also in Muzaffargarh, Punjab and Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu & Kashmir.  Sacrifice of animals will be done on  Eid-aul-Adha and all the meat will be equitably distributed amongst the poor. Qurbani will be carried out  in all the  six major centres of HOPE,  {Karachi, Thatta, Sujawal, Badin, Muzaffargarh, Muzaffarabad}

Objectives:

1. ·         To distribute qurbani/sacrificial meat to the poor and needy of the rural communities of Thatta, Badin, Sujawal under special instructions from Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialist in Karachi and chairperson of HOPE.

 

·         To sacrifice two selected cows in each of the three cities of Sindh where HOPE’s presence is very prominent. This activity will be guided  and managed by Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialist in Karachi.
 
·         The spirit behind this activity is  not only to provide meat to the very poor who can normally very rarely afford meat in their diets but to also encompass them in the true spirit of the celebration of  Eid-ulAdha ~  and at the same time spread the essence of piety and humbleness and set an example for other financially endowed  people to step forward and help the needy not just during the Eid-ul-Adha celebration but on a continous basis.

HOPE's Flood Relief Appeal

HOPE, an NGO in Pakistan, has been working for the benefit of the poor and needy women and children in the urban areas of Karachi as well as rural Sindh. Main activities of HOPE, are focused on Health and Education. HOPE has very actively taken part in the relief operation during the floods in 2010, extending from KPK in the north, Punjab as well as Sindh. In 2011 floods, the worst affected District in Sindh was Badin with the affected population rising to 1,021,301. Other Districts such as T.M Khan, Mirphurkhas and Tharpakar were also among the worst affected.

 The monsoons as per their  yearly cycle visited the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent yet again. This time with much more venom than in the previous years. The devastating floods that the rains unleashed have broken all  previous records of the last quarter of a century. The destruction so far caused  has been unprecedented in terms of loss of property and standing crops but in terms of  human lives lost it has been far worse ~ more than 300 precious lives have so far been lost in the current floods in Punjab alone. And more rains are expected to lash the upper regions of  Punjab and Azad Kashmir.Authorities warned hundreds of thousands more to be prepared to flee their homes as helicopters and boats raced to save marooned victims. The catastrophe is far worst than the flooding of 2010 which killed 1,700 people. Pakistani troops have been using boats and helicopters to drop food supplies for stranded families and evacuate victims. However, the challenge of the situation grows as more than 1.5 million people are now affected as the rushing waters have destroyed the homes of thousands of families. The floods have triggered landslides in Kashmir, and caused much devastation in northern and eastern Pakistan. The rains washed away houses, bridges, communication equipment and crops. Pakistani  troops have so far evacuated more than 40,000 people. They are in dire need of emergency relief, in the form of medical care, food and shelter ration and safe drinking water. The displaced people, especially women and young children, are being affected by various waterborne illnesses like diarrhea, gastroenteritis, skin infection, and so on. In addition, as the number of IDPs rise, so does the need for food and safe drinking water.

Given its vast experience in emergency relief management, and the guidance of Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialist in Karachi and chairperson of HOPE, teams comprising of doctors, paramedics and social workers to the affected areas are being sent to provide urgent attention. Emergency medical care will be provided, food and  ration will be distributed and safe drinking water will be made accessible.

Teams made as per instructions of Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialistin Karachi and chairperson of HOPE, have been sent to major schools and other institutions in Karachi to spread  awareness of the intensity  of current  floods that have virtually gripped the whole country and the anticipated after-effects the flood –affectees are likely to  face  ~ and also to solicit donations and assistance for this cause.

Kanwal’s Story Of Endless Struggle

This is the story of Kanwal, the eldest of four daughters, in a family living much below the poverty line ~ and her desperate struggles to bring the light of education into her family and raise her family to a much better financial status. With a father earning a measly sum of Rs 6000 a month, life had always been miserable for her and her family of six since her very childhood. It was at this point in her life that HOPE, an educational NGO inPakistan stepped in and introduced her to early education in one of HOPE’s home schools located in Manzoor Colony, a slum, underprivileged  area of Karachi.

The primary education stage of her life was extremely diffcult but her persistence  and  the encouragement  and special attention given by HOPE anNGO in Pakistan, finally got her through. It was under the personal guidance of Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialist in Karachi and chairperson of HOPE that Kanwal was motivated and encouraged to continue her education. It was  DrMubina Agboatwalla, child specialist in Karachi  who  continuously motivated her to appear for the Matriculation exams. Kanwal worked hard and cleared her Matric tests with flying colors.

It was at that point that HOPE proposed to set up a home school for Kanwal and coached her into becoming a quality teacher. Since then, with HOPE’s help,  she has been teaching underprivileged children lacking the means to receive quality education. But she has not given up her dream to one day go for  higher education and build a good life for her family and herself.

HOPE's Collaboration with Centers For Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia.

With the collaboration of Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, HOPE a health oriented NGO inPakistan has been engaged in the research of diarrheal disorders associated with many factors including personal hygiene, life styles,general cleanliness, quality of food and other intakes.

A large field team consisting  of more than 40 trained individuals was set up for this purpose by HOPE an NGO in Pakistan. The team members visited all areas of Karachi and interviewed health workers, doctors and residents of all residential areas of Karachi.

Water, food, cleanliness, personal hygiene, general pollution  and a host of other factors were investigated to find causes of the various prevalent diarrheal ailments. Of the many kinds of diarrheal disorders the ones most rampant were caused by campylo bacter of the jejuni strain; vibrio of the cholera strain and salmonella of many different strains.

This program was conducted under the direct supervision of Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialist in Karachi. It has been successfully rounded off and all records, data, remedies, suggestions etc have been collected and compiled by Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialist inKarachi and forwarded to all concerned, relevant authorities.

HOPE’s Zia Colony School: Excellent Matric Results:

Although HOPE’s Zia Colony School is located in an underprivileged slum of Korangi, it prides in providing exceptional education to a strata of community to whom education of any kind was previously not accessible. It has been an absolute priority of HOPE an NGO in Pakistan, to provide the best possible education to the poor who simply cannot  afford it due to high costs.  Thus HOPE, an educational NGO in Pakistan, is instrumental in not just providing excellent education but also in making it accessible to the poor, who otherwise would not have had the opportunity to good schooling.

As always particular attention was given by Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialist in Karachi and chairperson of HOPE in formulating the school’s systems, screening of teachers, methods of imparting information and proper selection of syllabus books at primary levels.  It is because of such relentless efforts of  Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialist in Karachi, that HOPE’s Zia Colony school has produced such exceptional results. 

All the students who appeared in the Matric examinations cleared the test with flying colors. Two of the girls did exceptionally well and received A Grade+ and three {two girls and one boy} received B grade+. The results have been very satisfactory and all students have been congratulated by the administrative and teaching staff. Special encouragement and motivation has been given to all the students to perform even better in the future.