HHRD Developmental Sector Highlights
HHRD has been working in three primary developmental sectors that include Education, Health Care & Nutrition, and Water for Life. Through programs such as Orphans Support, Skills Development, Children with Disabilities, Health Care, Water Sanitation and Hygiene, Emergency Relief, Youth Empowerment, and Seasonal Programs, HHRD has been rebuilding lives in Pakistan since 2005. Since the super floods in 2010, HHRD has invested an estimated $5 million annually in these key developmental areas.
Education Sector:In 2006 HHRD began its Orphan Support Program by sponsoring 125 children in 2 clusters. Currently HHRD is sponsoring 8,350 children in 38 districts in all four provinces and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
For a little as $1/day an orphan on their way to a brighter future!
By the Grace of God, and with the assistance of our supporters like yourself, HHRD is striving to make dreams come true by providing scholarships to 400 excelling students for their 11th and 12th grade classes as well as, secondary studies in degree or diploma courses. These initiatives encourage and empower the mind and heart of the future teachers, journalists, lawyers, accountants, doctors, engineers and others, who will go on to influence communities, nations, and the world.
This year, HHRD is imparting skills training to 3,200 individuals, mainly women and widows, in 15 districts throughout Pakistan in order to provide financial stability. Over the course of its efforts in Pakistan, HHRD has provided skills training to over 45,000 people, and has created over 900 groups of artisans to foster their enterprises. These projects are paving the path towards self-sufficiency and financial stability.
Health Care Sector: HHRD is sponsoring 1,000 disabled children in 5 major districts of Pakistan, which include: Mansehra, Lower Dir, Chakwal, Nawabshah, and Quetta. A new cluster of 200 more children with disabilities will soon be added in Karachi. These children receive medical checkups, physiotherapy, speech therapy, and psychotherapy sessions along with prosthetics, orthotics, hearing and mobility aids (as needed). Disability awareness and hygiene sessions are provided to primary care-givers to ensure these children are taken care of. In 2018, 478 sponsored children with disabilities were enrolled in schools.
With simply $2/day, or $60/month, you can help a child build self-confidence and facilitate their integration into society.
HHRD has partnered with WHO, and other agencies, to provide much needed medical help to people in disaster areas. These services include: Comprehensive Physical Rehabilitation, Mother Child Health Centers, Mobile Medical Units/Ambulance Services, Cataract Eye Surgeries, Medical Trainings to Traditional Birth Attendants, and support of Health Facilities through Medical In-Kind Gifts.
The State of the Art Helping Hand Institute of Rehabilitation Sciences facility in Mansehra Khyber Pukhtoun Khawa is educating 350 students in a five-year doctorate and two-year diploma course in Physical Sciences and Physiotherapy as well as providing comprehensive physical rehabilitation treatments, like artificial limbs, physiotherapy, and other rehab services.
There is also a desperate need of facilities for disorders pertaining to the nervous system. For this very purpose, a four-story hospital building, called the Karachi Institute of Neurological Diseases and Rehab (KIND & Rehab), has been purchased, which has elements similar to the Helping Hand Institute of Rehabilitation Sciences facility in Mansehra, but even more comprehensive in scope and services.
In total, and estimated 123,000 patients benefit annually in Pakistan through HHRD Healthcare & Nutrition Program.
Water And Sanitation Hygiene (WAS) Sectors: HHRD has been helping poor, natural or man-made catastrophe areas, displaced people, and a host of communities of refugees with access to clean drinking water through construction of various types of water projects in Pakistan such as: Affrediv Pump, Dug Water Wells with Pulleys, Submersible Pump, Gravity Flow Water Schemes, Tube-Wells, and Water Purification Systems. It also involves developing hygienic practices through the distribution of soaps from HHRD’s In-Kind Gifts program. Hygiene kits are distributed in areas of natural disasters, such as floods and earthquakes, to combat the spread of water borne diseases.
Currently, HHRD is conducting a WASH Program in one of the most destitute and neglected place of Thar Sindh called Chachoro, where the emphasis is on constructing and rehabilitating school toilets, distribution of hygiene training and kits to children and their families, painting walls of schools to provide a neat learning environment, and much more. This same effort will be replicated in other parts of Pakistan.
Within the past 11 years, HHRD’s WASH program has improved access to clean drinking water and sanitation for over 800,000 people in Pakistan.
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