Feed & Educate 50 children to break poverty trap

FRESH LUNCH BOX MEALS TO 77 CHILDREN

On Eid-ul-Azha(Islamic Holiday), Muslims sacrifice animals and their ultimate purpose to share meat with poors but in reality, mostly poor families never receive the sacrificed animal meat.

One day before Eid, Muwakhat foundation arranged 150 barbeque lunch boxes and distributed them to 23 families.

When children opened the boxes and saw meat, it brought happiness on their faces and our volunteers photographed them.

DISTRIBUTION OF FLOUR BAG

Muwakhat Foundation distributed flour bags weighing 20 kg to 23 homeless families a day before of Eid (Islamic Holiday) to save them from starvation. Selected homeless families did not have enough food to feed their children due to non-availability of work during covid-19 pandemic.

NEXT ACTION PLAN

• Muwakhat will do awareness programs for homeless children on importance of hand wash and distribute soap, mask and sanitizer to each child.
• Identify and register poor families hit during covid-19 pandemic.
• First four families will receive funds for setting up cart to earn income.
• Distribute dry ration to 23 families.

Links:

• Muwakhat Foundation selected 500 families to support for 3 years

Muwakhat Foundation working since day one for help families affected with CODVID-19 and lockdown. In March 2020m started awareness campaign of hand wash in rural communities located around Lahore and Kasur District.

28 volunteers joined last week of February 2020 for help rural community affected with CODVID-19 and lockdown.

Distributed Food packages and cash to daily wagers’ families affected from lockdown.

 Muwakhat’s volunteers collected data of families survive at daily wages. They have no source of income in lockdown started from April 01, 2020. This data taken from Asasah organization, offering microfinance services to 58,000 poor families for income generation in 16 cities of Punjab province.

From March 22, 2020, 104 families received financial support and food packages for overcome hunger and survive in lockdown period. Even though government announced some cash pay amount to poor families under program name “Ehsaas” but still not in action due to lack of information about affected families.

NGOs are closer with Community

NGOs working closely with poor communities and have all record of income earn, family members, expenses and education status. We are working since 2013 in selected communities and helping poor families on need based.

RESULT:  SOAPS, MASKS, FOOD PACKAGE & CASH DISTRIBUTED TO 1176 poor families and amount in rupees 438,500

# of SOAPS distributed                 6800 units to 1460 Poor Families

# of MASKS distributed                 3600 units to 896 Poor Families

# of FOOD PACKAGES                1890 units to 195 Poor Families

# of Cash Packets                         1340 Packets to 125 Poor Families

We reached only 1900 families out of 32000 families. Let’s all come together to fight this pandemic and ensure that nobody is hungry during this difficult time.

Muwakhat Foundation started education program for rural and poor children in October 2019 with believe “Educate a child helps to break poverty trap”. It is lasting solution after provides basic needs to poor and homeless families.

Out of every 10 Pakistanis, four are without the basic needs of life, which include food, shelter, education and healthcare.

About half of Pakistan’s population is illiterate, and 7.26 million children are out of school due to poverty.

In order for Pakistan’s poor to rise out of poverty, they must have the adequate resources. Only improved health and education services for the poor can increase Pakistan’s economic mobility and development.

PROCESS

Muwakhat Foundation selected 12 community schools and introduces holistic approach in education providing quality infrastructure, easy and joyful learning materials, computers, English language program, physical and mind development through sports, yoga & nutritious noon meals. Mostly children need character building, rehabilitate from trauma, overcome personality’s weaknesses and this will do by psychologist on regular assessment. The schools teach health & hygiene. The schools actively promote girls education.

TARGET: Oct 2019 – Sep 2022

Muwakhat Foundation provides

• Primary education to 6000 children.
• Dry ration on monthly basis for improve malnourishment of child and mother.
• Also donate three goats to each family for milk and build assets.

ACTIVITIES – Oct-Dec 2019

• Muwakhat Foundation visited three community schools and assess environment and quality education
• Tabinda Alkans Jaffery Chairperson with executive team invited by “St. Monica School” located in Village Clarkabad in Christmas event and sports day. Almost 667 poor students is getting education in this school

NEXT QUARTER – TARGET

• Second visit to above community schools
• Shortlist community school for introduce holistic approach education and register poor students for scholarship.
• Visit and interview children of bonded labour families at kiln (Bhatta)