CHILD DELIVERY AT HOPE MCH CENTER LANGARPURA, AZAD KASHMIR.

This weekend we achieved a new milestone in our fight to reduce Maternal and Infant Mortality in Pakistan - the first delivery of a baby from our Maternal and Child Health Center network took place at our MCHC in Langarpura, Azad Kashmir. In these remote regions, the terrain is mountainous and difficult to commute by car and healthcare facilities are few and far between.  Even if such facilities do exist, they are often not well-equipped and the less fortunate simply cannot afford them.  It is a standard practice that poor mothers labor and deliver their children in their own homes.

Unfortunately, the lack of accessible healthcare facilities for poor communities has led to adversely high Maternal and Infant Mortality rates in Pakistan, especially in cases where there are labor complications or medical intervention is needed.  In Pakistan, 33% of maternal deaths and 80% of infant deaths are preventable!  

HOPE – A Health NGO in Pakistan has been working diligently to provide free/nominal cost quality prenatal and infant care to underserved communities. In urban slum areas of Karachi, we operate four Hospitals in which a total of 15,000 children are born safely each year.

While in the Northern Areas of Pakistan, HOPE under the leadership of Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla – A Child Specialist in Karachi, has gone a step further, by establishing 3 new MCH Centers in the regions of Langarpura, Garhi Habibullah and Mansehra with birthing provisions, essentially making them a mini-hospitals.  This measure is a proactive step to ensure safe deliveries for both mothers and children in those communities.

HOPE – An NGO in Pakistan is grateful to our all our generous supporters who have made regular contributions towards the construction of these facilities along with ensuring their smooth operations. 

STORY OF MARANGE WHO FOUGHT POLIO THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF HOPE

This is the success story of Marange, who belongs to Karachi.  Marange faced a tough childhood as she was a poli patient for many many years, she could not stand or walk, due to no parents to support them, her two brothers had no one to guide them on the right path and thus they became drug addicts.

Misbah was a student of HOPE High school Zia Colony, where she got all the support, she needed be it medically, financially as well as in education. She went through multiple sessions of physiotherapy at the Polio Clinic in Civil Hospital, Karachi.  For nearly 7-8 years her education and medical requirements were sponsored by HOPE – An Educational NGO in Pakistan.

Marange has always had the interest in studies, she was a smart student, and used to get good grades, hence seeing her interest in studies, HOPE completely waved off the tuition fees throughout her schooling. The other educational supplies related costs were also sponsored by HOPE – An NGO in Pakistan.

Misbah passed her matric from HOPE Zia School. After which she studied further with full interest in the field of Medical. She is now a phlebotomist at Fatimid Blood Transfusion Center, Karachi. She personally believes the stage she is at right now it is because of the support of HOPE. She now is the sole supporter of her family and also has admitted her drug addict brothers in a rehabilitation center.

Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla - A Child Specialist in Karachi, supports and encourages the education of such children who have high ambitions but cannot afford school fees. Such students can be made capable enough of getting a respectable job and earing an income and support their families.

RESULT ANNOUNCEMENT OF HOPE SECONDARY SCHOOL (ZIA COLONY)

HOPE - A Health NGO in Pakistan is a reputable non profitable organization, which caters towards the health and educationAL sector in Pakistan. This organization is running under the leadership of Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla – A Child Specialist in Karachi, who is also the Chairperson of HOPE.

HOPE has a Formal Network of Schools in Pakistan, which provides quality education up to Matric in well-established buildings, in a neat & clean atmosphere, here qualified teachers teach students belonging to poor communities, whose fathers are either farmers, laborers or jobless. Furthermore, many students are orphans. These are the children whose parents are unable to afford school fees, and are forced to work as child labours. HOPE being the ray of light provides an assurity to their parents that they will be provided the best education, free of cost or at a very minimal cost.  Uniforms, stationery and school bags are provided free of cost.

HOPE’s Formal High School (Zia Colony, Karachi) is one of HOPE’s most successful Schools and like any other curriculum, students of this school gave their high school examination and passed with flying colors. The students worked very hard all year long, but their hard work paid off in the end. With a total of  4 “A+” grades, 20 “A” Grade, and 2 “B” grades, this year no student got C grade or less.  The students brought light to the hard work of the teachers and their own efforts paid off.  

The Principal of HOPE Zia School, Namely Miss Shaista Parveen and all the teachers worked extremely hard , and this is a very proud moment for HOPE -  An NGO In Pakistan.

HOPE under the leadership of Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla is doing its best to eliminate illiteracy in Pakistan. HOPE thoroughly tries to provide education to all, especially the underprivileged masses.

HOPE CELEBRATES EID-E-MILAD UN NABI AT ITS HEAD OFFICE

The 12th Rabi-ul-Awal marks the birth of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace be upon him). Eid-e-Milad un Nabi, is the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), which is remembered with religious zeal. The roads and buildings across the country are decorated with lightings and buntings. People are deeply devoted in prayers. People marched in rallies wearing colorful dresses. Religious festivities are the part of Pakistani society; it promotes religious and cultural values.

As the tradition lives on just like every year various religious programs are arranged at HOPE - An NGO in Pakistan, the occasion of Eid-Milad-un-Nabi at HOPE Head office was arranged on Friday 22^nd September 2023. HOPE made tremendous seating and audio arrangements for the function. A grand function was celebrated with full zeal and zest. All students and staff members from various schools and hospitals were gathered together for this prosperous occasion. Naats and Durood Pak were recited in remembrance of the life of Holy Prophet (PBUH).

The event started by the recitation of Holy Quran. Students of HOPE’s schools recited naats in their beautiful voices. HOPE - An Educational NGO in Pakistan is always doing its best to create opportunities  which allows its  students to reveal their hidden talents, and on this occasion it was a great opportunity for the students to show their love for the Holy Prophet (P.B.U.H) in their beautiful voices. Naats were recited by famous Naat Khuwans, Teachers and students in the way that it engaged the audience in the feeling of devotion.  Everyone celebrated the day with complete happiness and zeal.

Under the leadership of Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla - A Child Specialist in Karachi, the event went very successful. The planning was well done by the staff of HOPE, At the end everyone was served with burger, french-fries, sweets and cold drinks.

HOPE ESTABLISHES AN MCH CENTER AT MANSEHRA, KPK

HOPE – A Health NGO in Pakistan has strongly emphasized on the concept of primary health care that focuses more on the importance of community participation by identifying some of the basic health needs required by the people living in the society based on economical factors. It includes the basic facilities required for meeting one’s everyday health care needs like conducting a regular checkup, maternity and child health care, basic OPD facilities.

Basic health care refers to the essential health care made accessible to individuals in a community at a cost which they can afford. The medical infrastructure and the healthcare facilities’ in Azad Jammu and Kashmir are insufficient as compared to the ratio of its population. Hence after the establishment and running of the MCH at Murad Abad, Kashmir. HOPE – An NGO in Pakistan has set up a new MCH center in the District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through the blessings and funding’s of its donors.

To cater the existing issue HOPE has established another MCH Center at Baidrah, Mansehra, KPK.  Which is another maternal and child healthcare center where the primary motive is to provide medical services free of cost to the poor and needy. The area of KPK is a mountainous area where there are barely any roads or Infrastructure. People barely have access to hospitals and clinics nearby within their reach. Hence this MCH will serve as a blessing to all those areas near this clinic.

This MCH is free of cost like every other MCH of HOPE. It is operated by a qualified Lady Health Visitor (LHV), a dispenser and a maid. Treatment for men, women and children are being provided free of cost.

After viewing the success of the MCH at Murad Abad, Chikar, Jhelum Valley, Azad Kashmir Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla - A Child Specialist in Karachi, felt the need to open another MCH Center in the district of KPK,  she plans on establish more MCH Centers to improve the health inequality of the needy communities in Pakistan.

COOKING STOVE DISTRIBUTION PROJECT BY HOPE AND REVIVE ENVIRONMENT (PVT) LTD.

HOPE in collaboration with Revive Environment (Pvt) Ltd.  Have taken an initiative to provide stoves to the underprivileged areas of the society.  Areas where Natural Gas lines are not accessible and people who do cannot afford LPG cylinders.  The areas where people will have access to cooking without any cost.  The plan is to provide stoves which works with one of the most traditional and basic methods, by burring fire wood in the stoves.

The primary objective of Revive Environment (Pvt) Ltd. is to create a renewable source of living for the environment by removing carbon foot prints. At the same time helping the communities.  While the basic objective of HOPE – An NGO in Pakistan is also to help the communities, who are less privileged. 

The plan is to distribute 60,000 cost efficient stoves to poor communities starting from Sujawal and Badin over a period of 2 years. 

The collaboration between HOPE – An NGO in Pakistan and Revive Environment (Pvt) Ltd is aimed at providing the opportunity for cost efficient stoves, to the underprivileged and poor communities of Sujawal and Badin District.

Furthermore, both agree to enter into a long-term multi-faceted strategic partnership by combining their core competencies to ensure that poor and underprivileged masses receive the benefits of an economical cooking solution.

Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla – A Child Specialist in Karachi, who is also the Chairperson of HOPE, highly appreciates and encourages to partner up with other organizations who have a similar approach like HOPE, which is to help the needy communities of the society. Those who have no one to look upon them. 

After the successful distribution of cooking stoves in the districts of Sujawal and Badin, HOPE pans distribute these stoves in other regions of Pakistan as well.

 

HOPE’s VENTURE TO PROVIDE CLEAN DRINKING WATER THROUGHOUT PAKISTAN

Access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene is the most basic human need for health and well-being. Demand for Clean drinking water is rising owing to rapid population growth, urbanization and increasing water needs.

The United Nations considers universal access to clean water a basic human right, and an essential step towards improving living standards worldwide. Water-poor communities are typically economically poor as well, their residents trapped in an ongoing cycle of poverty. Keeping this problem in mind HOPE – An NGO in Pakistan in collaboration with Procter & Gamble, together are working on making clean drinking water accessible by spreading P&G Purifier of Water to their door steps of the people who have no access to clean drinking water throughout Pakistan.

P&G has authorized HOPE – A Health NGO in Pakistan as its official distributor of P&G Pur Sachets. In addition, HOPE a charitable NGO in Pakistan, also provides back-up support in the form of training, IEC material, social marketing and advocacy of P&G Purifier of Water. P&G Purifier of Water is extensively used for providing safe drinking water to affected people in disaster zones. It is distributed in 4-gram sachets-ample for purifying up to 10 liters of brackish water. Compared with other products available in the market, P&G Purifier of Water has the advantage of leaving no salty or sour after-taste. To date, HOPE has distributed 70 million sachets across the country under the supervision of Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla - A Child Specialist in Karachi.

The aim of this activity is to benefit the local community while making clean water accessible to all who are unable to purchase drinking water.  Hence reducing the morbidities especially among children. This will also provide them opportunity to improve standards of living while improving health status.