ANTICIPATED LIVES IMPACTED: 4,244 total including maginalized children who will receive education and vocational training as well as members of the community who will receive healthcare.
GRANT AMOUNT $94,324 from ARDF while $20,000 will come from other sources.
HOW YOU CONTRIBUTED!
For $446 you provided health and hygiene kits for 100 women.
For $4,459 you paid for medicinal support for 2,500 people.
GLOBAL TRUSTEES APPROVED November 2021
Project Overview
In Pakistan, Christians are among the country’s most marginalized community with limited economic opportunities coupled with persecution. They continue to suffer targeted violence and other abuses including abductions, forced conversions, and vandalism of their churches and businesses. Many Christians live in slums and villages. They have few opportunities to receive an education, skills training, or health services compared to the Muslim community. Due to their lack of skills, most Christians are employed as maids, cleaners, factory workers, and day laborers.
Impact
Through this project, the Anglican Diocese of Hyderabad will equip a vocational training school for women, provide mobile healthcare for rural and marginalized Christians, pay school fees for vulnerable children, and offer computer training for at-risk youth.
“I received my primary education from literacy education and awareness program [in] primary school in our village and then completed my further studies from the diocesan main school with the support from the project. After completing my studies up to the 10th grade, the project offered me work as the Women Empowerment Group mobilizer in my village. This has enabled me to improve my life and I am now supporting my family and local church. I am now a mobilizer working with girls by encouraging them to join schools.”
— Shugna, Shaleemabad Village, Tando Allahyar district, Sindh province, Pakistan
— Shugna, Shaleemabad Village, Tando Allahyar district, Sindh province, Pakistan
Updates
The government of Pakistan has approved the project, and in a status report received for June 2022, many elements of this project were on track.41 women and girls have started their vocational and skills training through training centers located in the rural areas of Diocese. In just over a month, some have progressed well in their skill building!
Staff for the mobile clinic have been hired and have completed orientation and training. This portion of the project is going well.
The heavy monsoon rains of 2022 devastated communities, leaving the poor and marginalized especially vulnerable. The heavy rains also directly affected project implementation as the floods destroyed one of the facilities they'd planned to use for vocational training. Our partners are currently discerning next steps.