Project Report
| Feb 4, 2019
Nawaz's Story
By Naila Ahmed, Sarah Emmanuel | Executive Director , Communications Manager
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Nawaz
Nawaz is a 46-year-old man who comes to SINA/SHINE Health Center for routine consultations and to pick up medications for his diabetes. He sells children’s suits on the streets and in special bachat bazaars to cater to his family’s basic needs. However, Nawaz’s family often struggles to make ends meet with his meagre earnings.
Nawaz is highly grateful to SINA/SHINEfor enabling him to seek healthcare at a very low cost since, without this, he would not have been compliant with his medication at all due to unaffordability. In addition, the clinic in Baldia Town is only a short distance from his house, which also proves to be highly convenient.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has estimated that the global number of people with diabetes will be more than double over the next 25 years and the developing world would bear an increasingly larger burden of the disease in this period. South Asia and Pakistan, in particular, are considered one of the areas of highest increase in projected numbers.
What these numbers mean is that people like Nawaz will find it more and more difficult to treat and manage this debilitating disease unless they are able to access free quality primary care. Your donations will allow us to keep educating people about preventive and management measures so that they do not suffer the dire consequences associated with diabetes.
With Gratitude,
Naila Ahmed
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Nov 8, 2018
Amna Bai's Story
By Naila Ahmed,Sarah Emmanuel | Executive Director, Project Manager
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Amna Bai
Amna Bai
Our culture encourages us to respect and support our aging parents but ever so often we find senior citizens left to fend for themselves. Amna Bai is one such unfortunate person:
Amna Bai is 83 years old. She lives alone and works in a factory to support herself financially since her four children have abandoned her completely. She is frail and weak but tries her best to be regular at her job. She does not make enough to afford proper meals so she eats a simple meal once a day. She often feels lethargic and listless. She has a host of other age-related health issues. Had it not been for the presence of SHINE Humanity / SINA clinic in her locality, she would not have been able to afford visits to a doctor.
At SHINE Humanity supported SINA clinic, she is provided quality primary health care and free medications, because of which she is able to continue working and supporting herself. The convenient short commute to the clinic is an added advantage as she cannot afford to spend money traveling to the government hospitals located in the center of town.
Amna Bai's story is not a dramatic one, but it highlights an issue that is very pertinent in these present times. Amna Bai is a simple woman who at her age should not have to contend with doing physical labor to feed herself. That she has to provide for herself at this age is, unfortunately, a sad reality. When the State is unable to step in to support it's senior citizens, it is left to institutions like SHINE Humanity and SINA to provide a much needed service that helps her take better care of her health.
Please continue to support our organization so that we are able to help more and more senior citizens like Amna Bai.
With Gratitude,
Naila Ahmed, Sarah Emmanuel
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Aug 7, 2018
The Story of Abdul Kareem
By Naila Ahmed | Executive Director
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Abdul Kareem
SHINE Humanity has been supporting SINA's Primary Health Clinic in Baldia Town, Karachi for the past 5 years.
Baldia Town is a low-income area where most of the residents are day laborers who face a daily struggle to make ends meet.48-year-old Abdul Kareem is one such resident, He supports his five children by working as a laborer in Sabzi Mandi. (wholesale fruit and vegetable market) Earning minimum wages, Abdul Kareem can’t even afford to pay for public transportation let alone set money aside for healthcare. The SINA clinic being only a short walk from his residence is highly accessible to Abdul Kareem. He is now a regular visitor at the clinic which he visits every month to manage his ailments.
At SINA, Abdul Kareem receives his routine blood pressure and diabetes medication. Owing to free medication provision at SINA, Abdul Kareem now regularly takes his medication, because of which he can continue working to support his family.
Abdul Kareem is just one of the thousands of patients who visit the clinic in Baldia Town. We would not be able to provide them with quality primary health care without help from our generous donors.
We hope you will continue to support our cause in the future!
With Gratitude,
Naila Ahmed
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