“There was no loss of life and property and we were able to put out the fire. We prevented a catastrophe before it was too late,” Ghulam Ishaq recalls proudly. “Fire brigade was late in coming to the incident site, but our ERT was in place and each member knew what to do and how…
Details“Every month people came knocking my door, asking for money I owed them. I had the tailoring skills, but I was not an efficient worker due to ongoing house chores and regular load shedding. Though I had developed a customer base, I had to turn away a majority of them as I could not manage…
DetailsPhulana, a 37-year-old mother of five children, is a scheduled caste Hindu who lives in ghettoized Ghera Basti in Hyderabad, Sindh. Her community is discriminated against by Muslims and upper-caste Hindus alike. Abject poverty and a lack of economic opportunities have made their lives considerably hard. Given the hardships, the family resorted to collecting used…
DetailsSharmeen, a university student doing her Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Education, lives with her parents and siblings in Okara, a remote district of Punjab. Being a student, she frequently browses the internet for academic pursuits and to connect with her friends and mentors through social media platforms. Although, she was cognizant of the risks associated…
DetailsMohammad Khalid, a 39-year-old social worker, belongs to village Talagram, a region surrounded by mountains, which receives heavy rainfall in both the summer and winter season. The village is only accessible through a jeepable 90-minute drive up a steep and narrow winding road from Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). AJK is highly prone to…
DetailsGulshat cannot have it better. In a matter of few months, she is expecting to earn more money, have greater control over her natural and financial resources, a relatively less laborious summer and abundance of preserved fruit and vegetables for her family to survive the harshest of winters in Chinar – a rugged village cradled…
DetailsSafar Khan, a 35-years-old, resident of a remote village Tirak Bolkha in district Kalat, Balochistan was afflicted with polio. Despite having a graduate degree, he found it difficult to make ends meet. After struggling long and hard to find work in a region where jobs are scarce, he found work as a night watchman at…
DetailsPallandri, a small town in Suadhoti district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) has an abundance of forest cover. Local residents chop wood and use it as the primary fuel for cooking purposes and heating their homes during winters. Regular cutting of trees does not bode well for the region. Resultantly, the price of firewood…
DetailsThe picturesque village Cheruty lies in the peripheries of district Rawalakot, Azad Jammu and Kashmir. It sits near a hilltop surrounded by towering ferns trees. Local economy is nearly non-existent as a large portion of locals’ income come in the form of foreign remittances from family members abroad, while some seek greener pastures in other…
DetailsWomen’s Action for Better Workplaces (WAction) conducted Workplace Monitoring Exercise at 105 workplaces in five project districts i.e. Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, and Quetta. The monitoring of workplaces was conducted on standardized checklists. Keeping in view the difference in provisions of the laws governing the industrial, public, and private workplaces, two checklists were developed, one…
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