Girls Menstrual Hygiene Awareness Southern Punjab

Update 5: We have been fortunate enough to run a menstrual hygiene awareness campaign in primary schools. We are getting organic cotton reusable pads made from local home based tailor women, hence also creating work opportunity there for women. Sourcing cotton from local markets.

Intention and aim is to deliver awareness talks and provide them with starter kits comprising underwear, pads for the week, a soap bar and a bag to keep them all in.

Update 4:

2/5/2023

As the story developed and situation changed, we adopted accordingly and changed our mission based on people’s and area’s dire needs.

Update 3: We have ordered school bags and floor mats for local school. We are sourcing materials locally to provide work and save transportation costs.

Update 2: We are in the process of providing roof materials for the rebuilding of the one-room dwellings.

Update 1: word from the ground is that we should use funds to provide tents, plastic sheets for animal shelters and mosquito nets.

More than 3 000 000 people have been affected by heavy, devastating monsoon rains. Nearly 200,000 have been displaced to relief camps across Pakistan, and almost 1,000,000 houses have been damaged. 800,000 livestock has been lost, ruining their primary source of food and income, and more than 3,000 km of roads and 130 bridges have been damaged, cutting the stranded off from emergency relief. Rains continue without stopping, and these numbers rise by the minute.

The humanitarian situation in Pakistan will continue to deteriorate as heavy rains cause flooding and landslides, with more people being displaced and more lives being lost. The Government of Pakistan has officially labeled South Punjab as being in calamity.

Many remote villages in South Punjab have been destroyed. Taunsa Sharif, Rojhan, Jampur, Rajanpur, Dera Ghazi Khan and nearby areas are the most affected in terms of human and infrastructural damage.

People are trying to provide local aid, but the level of help needed is way beyond their means. They are now entirely cut off from other big cities and are left with only the local youth trying their best to rescue people.

South Punjab desperately needs your donations. It is often overlooked in Pakistan's political climate, so we must help those locals that are being forgotten in their time of need. My father and I, who hail from the region, will use our local connections to give money directly to the activists working on the ground, and we will distribute it to as many villages as we can afford to help. The more money we raise, the more lives we will save, so please donate generously and support the natural disaster victims in South Punjab in their time of need.