Success Stories

Empowering Older Women Empowers Us All–HelpAge International
90-year-old Mai Hawa lives in Ibrahim Hyderi, Karachi, with her 13 family members and belongs to a poor fisher community. Her husband was a fisherman who died…

Enabling Women to Lead Health Interventions in Their Communities–Muslim Aid
The drought in Balochistan has affected over 4.4 million people, particularly women and children who remain in dire need of…

WASH Support to Afghan Refugees in Kababyan Camp–Federation Handicap international
A huge influx of Afghan population crossed the borders and arrived in Pakistan since in 1979 as a result of Soviet invasion and later sectarian…

What Front-Line Health Workers Learned After a Year Fighting COVID-19–International Rescue Committee
The coronavirus pandemic has put the unflagging dedication of health workers around the globe in the spotlight. For world health Day 2021..

Alleviating the Plight of Pregnant Women–MdM
A 20 year old poor young woman was taken by her family to a private hospital in Tank for maternity services. To the utter disappointment of women, the hospital asked for 20,000..

A Dream Come True–Islamic Relief
High up in the hills of Janial, a remote village of Mirpur, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, nine-year old Nayab Mehfooz lives with her parents. Her father is a shopkeeper in local market, while her mother is a housewife…

Unexpected Blessings–International Rescue Committee
A common characteristic of many of the least developed districts of Pakistan includes vast pieces of vacant land and harsh climatic conditions…

Providing Access to Safe and Quality Education in the Newly Merged District Bajaur–HOPE’87
In Pakistan, most of tribal areas do not have access to safe and quality education…

Agricultural innovation for drought affected communities–Concern Worldwide
In District Tharparkar the BDRP target villages are remotely located and therefore have limited access to agriculture extension services…

Inclusive approaches harbingers of change for Samina Bibi–Handicap International
This is the story of a girl who had no friends. She was unable to go out and play with anyone nor was she able to enjoy activities …

Changing Paths–Save the Children
Salma Ashiq had been begging on the streets for two years. Deprived of education, she had understood at an early age that this was not the future that she wanted. Belonging to a family which practices beggary…

Emergency Response for the most Vulnerable in Balochistan–Muslim Hands
Emergency was imposed in seven districts of Balochistan after a spell of heavy rain and snowfall across the province in January 2020…