you have more poor than the entire african continent.....that enough projection i reckon
What We Do ?
HELP PAKISTAN builds bridges between donors and people living under the poverty line in Pakistan. Our initial objective is to provide these underprivileged people the most basic necessity of life i.e. food supplies. In the second phase, we will provide clothes, health expenses, and wedding sponsorships for girls & educational expenses for boys. Our overall intention for social reform is based on an agenda that states Help the Poor become financially independent. We intend to fulfill this agenda in a three step strategy:
Building trustworthy relationships between donors and recipients.
Providing food supplies to the hungry and poor, and.
Providing them opportunities to study or find work, helping them earn their own food and living.
WHY FOOD? GLOBAL HUNGER
HUNGER IN PAKISTAN
The current figure of undernourished people worldwide is 923 million. More than 850 million people go to bed hungry every night.
Today, one in nearly seven people does not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life. Ten million people die every year of hunger and hunger-related diseases.
According to facts accumulated by the World Food Program, the United Nations food aid agency, more than 34% percent of the Pakistani population is undernourished.
Apart from rural areas, a large number of these hungry and poor people live in urban slums and shanty towns inside and on the city limits of the biggest cities, including the metropolitan, Karachi.
Why providing food is the top priority of HELP PAKISTAN ?
The number of undernourished people in the world increased by 75 million in 2007, largely due to higher food prices. Surprisingly, there is more than enough food to feed the world's population. But its distribution remains a dilemma, mostly because tons of it is wasted in developed communities. For the hungry, every day is about finding enough food to survive. The poor do not have the money to buy it or the means to produce it. Food can break the cycle of poverty. Once free of the worry of finding food, these poor people can be motivated or guided to find work or study and make a respectable living by becoming financially independent. We, the people behind HELP PAKISTAN aim to provide food, the very basic necessity of life, to help the poor and hungry to survive.
WHERE DOES HELP PAKISTAN WORK
AND WHO BENEFITS?
To start with, we aim to start with people around us, people living in and around Karachi. Our target are the katchi abadis (shanty towns & urban slums) that are colonies of extremely poor people, living in huts made of straw and surviving on food either dumped by nearby wealthy families or given away when rotten. Most of these people also starve or live on very small quantities of food. We will priorities Widows, Handicap and Old age families. Hungry to survive.
WHO PAYS FOR HELP PAKISTAN FOOD ASSISTANCE(Mahana Rashan) PROGRAM ?
HELP PAKISTAN relies on voluntary contributions to run its food assistance program. Contributions are made either by cheque, bank draft or pay order. HELP PAKISTAN also welcomes food supplies or the basic items necessary to grow, store and cook food. We depend entirely on the generosity of our donors.
What does the Mahana Rashan Program entail ?
The Mahana Rashan program consists of a large sack of food ration comprising of:
Flour Rice Pulses Oil Salt Red Chilly Soap
