Global Organization for Women HELPING PAKISTAN’S FLOOD VICTIMS

An overview

- 20 Million people homeless, without food & shelter and in need of YOUR assistance

Facts---- 25% of Pakistan under water- Over 200,000 pregnant women- 2 Million are children - Water they drink have dead animals & humans - AID IS NOT COMING FAST ENOUGH…

- Without YOUR help they may perish!

Ground Realities

- Winter is approaching KPK faster than any province in the country

- People pushed from schools out in open sky

- Snow in the area + Open sky = freezing to death - Infant death on rise; women in need of help;

increasing number of disabled, stranded & old

- UN appeal HELP!

Projects (1)

SPONSOR A SCHOOL

• Cost: PKR 1,000, 000/ £ 8,333 / $ 11,628 for a school of 150 students

• Teachers: Local teachers. Monthly wages = 3,000- 4,000 Rs

• Timing: 10-15 days to setup

• Target: 25 schools

Project (2)

SUPPORT A STUDENT

Children --- traumatized, lonely & with no activity

• Need new modes of education unheard of in these areas as computers, music and trade.

• One year: PKR 18,000 / £ 174 / $

212

• Support a student for a month: PKR 1500 / £ 14 / $ 18

Project (3)

SPONSOR A COMMUNITY CENTRE

Community centres= health care facilities, counselling + women income generation centres.

Cost per Community Centre: PKR 500, 000 / £ 4,166/ $ 5,813

Timing: 5-8 days to setup

Target: 20 Community Centres

Project (4)

FOOD SECURITY & FARMING

• Primary Activity: Farming & Livestock

• They need seeds, fruits & animals to generate income.

• Cost per farmer: PKR 20, 000 / £ 174 / $ 236

• Timing: 4-5 days to train

• Target: 1,000 farmers

PLAN TO ACTION

PARTNERSHIPS

• ISOI• JCI

OPPORTUNITIES & UPCOMING

• Agriculture Sector• Industry• Women Based projects• ADOPT A VILLAGE

MICROFINANCING

PLAN TO ACTION

International School of Islamabad

School with a mission Values of compassion, care & responsibility Provided 100 eid packs for Kids. Donated 500 backpacks & life saving kits Donated another 540 backpacks & life saving

kits Donated 201 quilts

KIDS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS BROUGHT ITMID LEVEL SCHOOL PACKEDANDHIGH SCHOOL MONITORED IT

PRESENTATION

PLAN TO ACTION

Junior Chamber International

Partner body of the UN

Provided rations bags to KPK despite doing major flood relief efforts in Sindh

Donated Ladies Hygiene kits

Donated Amounts

HELPING MEDIUM & LONG TERM PROJECTS

PLAN TO ACTION

E-360 & FUND RAISERS

Power of Networks Simple SMS can save lives Trust networks

Usama Qazi, CEO of E360 used every forum in Islamabad to spread the word on SAF.

This brought in Donations (over 500,000 Rs) Investments ( in projects) Members (over 50)

You have the power to do the same

PLAN TO ACTION

SIMPLE IDEAS SAVE LIVES

Humza & Hafsa (7 year old boy & 10 year old girl were explained condition of flood victims in 5 Mins.

ROE [Retrun on Effort]---- collect over 200 soap bars, 100 tooth pastes and 50 clothes for women & children on their own with no HELP in ramzan when schools were closed!)

Faaiza Ameen & viral SMS ( Was sent an SMS on life saving kits that

involved towels, soaps, tooth pastes, sanitary napkins, tooth brushes etc.

ROE [Return on Effort]---- In a week collected 100 kits, 5 cartons of clothes and other materials worth 300,000)

IMAGINE WHAT YOUR NETWORK CAN YEILD

Plan to Action--- Life saving idea

Micro financing--- why it never worked in Pakistan?

Lack of understanding of the Micro business. (Learning's from Central Bank).

Trying to run it with confused motives (Shakut Aziz question---When country had record FDI the poor were getting poorer)

Lack of training & clustering (Reason for failure of Kashf)

Improper monitoring (Why top of the line international MFIs do NOT invest in Pakistan)

Micro financing--- How SAF makes it workable

Setting up banking and loans facilities for the poor & flood affected people.

Dividing people into groups of 5

Providing them training & complete monitoring

First Micro finance workshop (Nowshera)

FROM THE AUDIENCE: Seed Capital of 700,000 needed to setup operations

SAF--- SHAHINA AFTAB FOUNDATION

Plan to Action--- Life saving idea

Partner Organizations

SAF UK (Arshad Chaudhry, Annika Aril & Lesly) Desisisters, UK (Jenny Thomas, Chair Desi sisters) DM Digital, UK ( Asif Khan) Mercy Corps USA (Angel Russel) International School of Islamabad ( Sky Ribber & Team) UN (Qudsia Jabeen) Junior Chamber International ( Israr Khan, President Pakistan & Samina

Kauser, President Women JCI) PIA ( Shabzida Bashir, Head cargo operations, PIA) E360 (Usama Qazi, CEO E360) NPO ( Khawaja Yusuf, CEO NPO, Ministry of Industries & Production ) Capital Development Authority SAF team Lahore & London ( Nabillah Asad, Mehru Asad, Tayiba Asad &

Khizer Haroon) NUST (Muneeb Khan) Ufone ( Junaid Khan) & Ufone Corps (Kashifa Mehmood) .Mrs Shakeela Shahind & Mrs. Humera Arshad [Master Trainers] .Mrs Mahnaz & Syed Aamir Ahsan [Gold star members]

Global Organization for Women STATERGY, LINKAGES & FUNDING

Relief Efforts Round 1

Nowshera Aug 8, 2010

3000 women stuck on the roofs of their houses, clothes torn

Largest numbers of death in infants 80%

SAF provided aid to over 500 families in Nowshera

Immediate aid included food, clothing and clean drinking water

Relief Efforts Round 2

Risalpur Aug 14, 2010

6,000 needy in the camps who were evacuated by Pak Army till wee hours of night. Al-Jazeera video on our Army Partners

.E-360 joined in to spread the word. Major donations coming from local investors

Spent independence day with the children

Provided support to over 1,000 families

Support included food, clothing and kiddie gift packs

Relief Efforts Round 3

Risalpur Aug 20, 2010

Families without food or shelter, disease out break in the region.

Speeding up relief efforts, setting up SAF (UK) getting support of George Glasgow

Partnership with local universities & JCI

Donors flying in from the UK to provide support to families in need.

2 truck loads of food for the people with

200 Meters of cloth for women

Relief Efforts Round 4

Risalpur Aug 28, 2010

BBC coverage for Shahina Aftab Foundation on 26 Aug “Pakistan floods: worst is yet to come”.

Major out break of diseases in KPK resulting in death of over 500 women & infants

IMMEDIATE LAUNCH OF “life saving kits campaigns”--- support from Mr. Kamran Lashri Secretary, Min of Petroleum & CDA.

Major support for SAF from US. Angel Russel featured in Martha’s Vineyard Times talking of support to SAF.

2 truck loads of food for the people with

launch of women empowerment project.

Relief Efforts Round 5

SWAT, September 5, 2010

Operation Imdad--- the largest land & air operation to support SWAT PEOPLE

Road networks were broken, mobile communication dead & security risks high. Just a day after Dir Finance had come out of hospital.

SAF launched major campaign for operation IMDAD--- in collaboration with SAF(UK) & Mehru Asad & Khizer Haroon in UK. Special thanks to Mr. Shabzada Bashir for extraordinary support. PIA & NDMA all out to help SAF.

21 Hours of non stop service in SWAT.

In collaboration with Pak Army inaccessible areas of Kalam & Madian were reached.

Relief Efforts Round 6

Charsadda, September 15, 2010

Largest accounting body of the county, ACCA Pakistan interview Dir Finance on Floods, role of SAF & Impact on Pakistani Economy

Major linkage created with Islamabad International School.

To the families who lost loved ones, income & houses.

CEO survived acute diarrhea condition.

Eid Gift packs distributed to over 100 children.

Women given clothes over 270 women.

Food rations provided to families.

Relief Efforts Round 7

September 21, 2010

Focus shift from relief to Early Recovery

SAF on survey & assessment trip to SWAT.

Collaboration with NUST & IMpossible for rehabilitation projects.

Projects divided into three categories:

Housing & survival Income generation & skills (Agri & Industry) Community service.

Relief Efforts Round 8

January 1-3, 2011

In Neelam valley: hit by floods and snow

Food and warm quilts for approx. 2,000 people (90% of the beneficiaries were widows with no source of income)

Warm Quilts: 200

Food packs for the family for one month: 550

Relief Efforts Round UpAugust 1, 2010 to Jan 1, 2011

Period: 5 months

Area Covered: 3 Districts, (Nowshera, Charsadda, SWAT, Neelam) in over 7 locations

People covered: 10,000 families

International appeals through internet: over 100 countries / International presentations (Dubai: Nov, 2010 & Hong Kong: Dec, 2010)

Food: Over 1,000 families of 8 were provided food packs.

Quilts: Over 750 quilts were distributed

Community Development ProjectsSchools for children!

Schools--- Setting up two schools

Feb 1, 2011

Area Covered: Nowshera & Charsadda,

Children: 150 Nowshera _+ 150 Charsadda = 300 children

Free of cost education.

English medium education using Oxford syllabus

Children will be provided computer education with CD-based learning modules

Global Organization for Women THANKYOU FOR YOUR TIME!