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Grief Directory Home
Dear Friends,
We hope this reaches you all in the best of the health and spirits. After many months of careful deliberation and planning, we are pleased to let you all know that we have started major work on
The Grief Directory (TGD) project for which you all had come forth and volunteered few months ago. The sort of response we had received from you all had been really heart-warming and encouraging. The brainstorming and planning phase of the project took much more time than we had anticipated. We wanted to develop the infrastructure of TGD so that we could share with you something concrete, hence the delay in responding to your supportive emails. Now we are getting in touch with you as we are in a position to launch our second phase.
We are planning on collecting city-wise data about our volunteers, as such we need your help to get the requisite information. The completion of this particular would place us in a position to extend support to more grieving families.
The Grief Directory (TGD) Project is needed in our country more so now than ever before. Our team has been working to formulate an infrastructure of this project, and we would like to share some things we have done and where we want to go forward with it.
First, we would like to introduce our core team members who are working hard to bring this project to the realization phase;
Dr Fatima Ali Haider
Who has provided the vision for this whole project and will be personally involved every step of the way.
Dr. Narmeen Altaf Hamid
Will be involved in the operations of the TGD and look after the Research & Development of this project as well.
Minahil Mehdi
Will be the first point of contact for the affected families. She will also develop and expand the in-house volunteer database for smooth running of the project.
Rabeea Khan
Involved in the development of the organizational structure, formulating of policies, processes and competency mapping of HR. Rabeea and her team will be following up with all of you for the volunteer members’ required information. The HR team will collect, compile and organize the volunteer friends database.
These are some of the things we have been working on during these past few months:
● Our website
Grief Directory Home is under construction, it will be ready and operational soon.
● Our team has designed a comprehensive brochure which will help in spreading the information regarding this project.
● We have a team that will start working in Peshawar, reaching out to families who were victims of the tragic Army Public School (APS) attack.
● We have the collaboration of organizations like (Rozan, Pehchan, HumAahang) that will help us to extend help to deserving people. We have a volunteer pool from LUMS as well.
● Our team has compiled first hand data that shows that over 58,000 people were killed from 2003 till present in terrorist attacks all over the country. We are working on gathering their detailed profiles to match their needs with the help that we can provide.
We feel that now we have arrived at a phase where we can actually reach out to the grieving families and provide them with a support system to lean upon. I am requesting you all for your support in this regard. Below is the link of a volunteer form, we would like you to fill it to formally join us members of TGD. All of the information you provide will remain confidential and be on restricted access.
Form:
The Grief Directory
We are hoping to hear from you soon.
Best wishes,
The Grief Directory Core Team