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COMMUNITY OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS (CCR)

FACILITATION OF DIFFERENTLY-ABLED AND NORMAL CHILDREN FROM ULTRAPOOR BACKGROUND

ABOUT COMMUNITY OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

CCR is a dynamic and forward-thinking non-governmental organization established by a group of young, like-minded social philanthropists in 2018. Committed to addressing the healthcare and education challenges faced by communities with particular focus on South Punjab and including other provinces as well, we believe in the transformative power of health and education is a must to create positive change.

Community of Children’s Rights (CCR) is a recognized NGO licensed under Section 42 of the Companies Act 2017 by Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), accountable to all the prestigious relevant monitoring authorities of the Government of Pakistan. Community of Children’s Rights, incorporated on 22 October 2018 with Registration # 0125368, is now fully functional and aiming high towards the accomplishment of its goals.

Community of Children’s Rights has laid its foundation with the aim of providing children and their families hailing from deserving and ultra-poor back grounds with all the basic rights and facilities needed to help them to become productive members of the society and to remove any sort of sense of deprivation prevailing among that specific class of the society, that would eventually make them confident of their capabilities and encourage them towards being useful and fertile.

Vision

To create a healthier and more resilient community in South Punjab by providing accessible, integrated health support and fostering sustainable healthcare practices.

Mission

Our mission is to improve the overall well-being of individuals and communities in South Punjab by delivering comprehensive health services, promoting health education, and advocating for sustainable healthcare practices.

Health Sector Achievements

• CCR has signed an MoU with Sehhat Foundation Hospital, Gilgit, for Mother Child Health (MCH) project. Under this project organized health camps and provided nutrition screening services, referrals to hospitals and food supplements.

• Organized awareness sessions on nutrition and nutrition sensitive food

• Promoted breast feeding and focus on first 1,000 days of a child’s life

• The provision of Specialized Nutritious Food (SNF) commodities

• Awareness raising sessions on maternal infant and young child nutrition, health and hygiene practices and intake of nutritional food;

• Provision of specialized nutritional food to mother and children;

• Routine growth monitoring, immunization, antenatal, postnatal care services;

• Conditional cash stipends for exclusive breastfeeding mothers

• Organized medical camps for screening of mal nourished women and children

• Organized 50 Eye camps and screening 1000 and 500 referrals got successful operations cataract free of cost

• Held awareness message during Govt. Polio campaign every year for polio vaccine of street children in particular

• During COVID-19, 500 Nomads families were mobilized and given COVID-19 shots in District Muzaffargarh, Multan and Vehari

• Held 100 camps for street children immunization against deadly diseases like Polio, Tuberculosis, Tetanus, Measles, and Hepatitis etc.

• Provision of 5000 first aid kits, safe delivery and dignity kits to the pregnant and lactating women.

Education Sector Achievement

• Identification of out of school children in District Multan and Vehari

• Identified children have been enrolled in Government and Private schools by CCR

• CCR is also facilitating these children by providing them monthly stipend, uniform, books and stationary etc.

• In collaboration with AIMS Public School, CCR has inducted 150 out of school children of remote areas of District Khanewal in AIMS Public School

• CCR has acquired 16 kanals (87040 sq. feet) land (situated on Main Burewala-Bahawalpur Road) to establish Child Development Centre/Boarding School/Skill Development Academy.

• CCR in collaboration with the administration of Special Star Inclusive School, Shah Rukn-e- Alam Colony, Multan, facilitated 150 normal students and 20 differently-abled students in terms of free education, and by providing them free uniforms, books and stationary, and pick and drop services etc.

PROJECT STATEMENT

Education is considered a fundamental non-negotiable right of every child, hence, implying that it is a primary state responsibility to enable citizens to access education as an entitlement. The adoption of this right has been successfully implemented in many countries; however, unfortunately in countries like Pakistan, still a significant number of children have no access to even their basic rights. As a result, they are unable to get quality education, health facilities, security, and protection. Especially, differently-abled children do not get even the basic facilities they need. Pakistani children, born with physical and/or mental disorders, have little prospect of a functional adult life because of social ignorance about their condition and an absence of trained professionals to care for them.

Multan is the sixth largest city of Pakistan, situated in the Southern Punjab Region. In Multan, 41% of children within 5 to 16 years age are out of school. Many public schools in Multan do not have even basic facilities, including electricity, drinking water supply, toilets, and boundary walls, etc. Shah Rukn-e-Alam Colony is a well-renowned area of Multan; however, due to lack of awareness, many children in this area are either receiving low-quality education or are out of schools. Due to illiteracy, the majority of the families in this area earn their income either through unskilled adult and child labor work in industries, such as power-looms, or by running kiosks. Along with this fact, there are many differently-abled children in the area with mental and/or physical disabilities, who have continuously been neglected by society. Moreover, there is no well-developed public school system in the nearby vicinity of this area.

Keeping in view the above-mentioned facts, we selected the Al Mustafa School Project at Mohalla Shareef-pura, Shah Rukn-e-Alam Colony, to facilitate children who were either normal or differently-abled. In the Al Mustafa School, 100% free education is provided to all its 170 enrolled students (150 normal students and 20 differently-abled students). However, due to limited resources, it was difficult to fulfill the needs of both normal and differently-abled children. Thus, CCR planned to facilitate the children of AL Mustafa School through the provision of uniforms and stationery among normal and differently-abled children, and wheelchairs among differently-abled children. To create awareness about tree-plantation in children, we also planned to distribute plants among the students of this school.

• CCR3.0.pdf (PDF)