HOPE On-Ground Team Ends 2023 🏁 and Kicks off 🚀 2024 in Kashmir 🏔️ & KPK 🛖

HOPE On-Ground Team Ends 2023 🏁 and Kicks off 🚀 2024 in Kashmir 🏔️ & KPK 🛖:

3,000+ Underserved Women 🧕🏻and Children 🧒🏻 Receive Food 🥘, Medical Aid 🩺, Winter Gear 🧥, School Supplies 🎒, Blankets

Dear HOPE Friends,

The On-Ground HOPE Team wrapped up 2023 with a fruitful trip to oversee our Health 🏥, Education 🏫, and Vocational Training 🧵facilities in the Northern Areas of Pakistan 🇵🇰, namely Azad Kashmir 🏔️ and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 🛖.

Over 3,000 Underserved Women 🧕🏻 and Children 🧒🏻 Received Biryani 🥘, Warm Clothing 🧥, Blankets 🛌🏻 , Medical Aid 🩺, Vocational Training 🧵, and Participated in Community-Building Exercises such as School Ceremonies 🎓.

This trip was quite extensive in nature and covered a wide geographical scope 🌏 which encompasses our recently-expanded network to serve the poor.

Currently, HOPE's Framework for Poverty Alleviation in the Northern Areas 🏔️of Pakistan 🇵🇰 Includes:

🔶 35 Home Schools 📚serving 2,000 Students 👩🏻‍🎓, 80% of whom are underprivileged girls

🔶 5 Maternal 🧕🏻& Child 🧒🏻 Health Centers 🏥 (all equipped to handle births) which serve a total of 90,000 Villagers 🛖 annually

🔶 2 Vocational Training Centers (set up within MCHC grounds) which provide income-generating skills 🧵to 500 Women annually

The HOPE Team met with and interacted 🤝🏼with thousands of members of the communities from Mansehra, KPK to Azad Kashmir 🏔️.

🔶 Children 🧒🏻 performed for the community on stage, were gifted new backpacks 🎒 and school supplies 📝, and received accolades 🏆 for their accomplishments.

🔶 Warm winter gear 🧥, food 🥘, and blankets 🛌🏻 were distributed to villagers 🛖.

🔶 Young adults in our Vocational Centers were lauded 👏🏼 for their hard work 🧶 and the skills they had acquired.

Our new Medical Facilities 🏥in KPK 🛖which are sponsored by Yusuf Foundation (Garhi Habibullah and Mansehra) were visited by Dr. Mubina Agboatwalla, along with our Azad Kashmir 🏔️ MCHC (sponsored by Darul Sadaqa and private donors). During this visit particularly, the HOPE Team witnessed firsthand the positive impact 📈 these facilities are having upon the surrounding communities, and especially the life-saving ⛑️ role they have taken on:

🔶 These communities were in such dire need of access to affordable and quality medical care that these MCHCs are becoming larger than life and taking on an even greater role to the communities than we ever anticipated.

🔶 The mere presence of a medical facility in these areas has given hope to thousands of villagers who could not access healthcare due to cost and/or distance.

🔶 In this visit, we equipped all MCHCs with infant warmers and ultrasound machines to meet the needs of villagers.

🔶 With funding, we are also seeking to furnish each with incubators to handle complex cases.

Overall, we are thrilled to report that due to the generosity 🌹of our supporters and organizations such as Yusuf Foundation and Darul Sadaqa786, we are seeing precious lives saved in our medical clinics 🏥 and children flourishing in our schools 🏫. This trip proved to be so eventful in nature that we will be featuring a couple of stories in the near future about the tangible impact that has been through the generosity of our donors 💝.

Warm Regards,

The HOPE USA 🇺🇸, HOPE UK 🇬🇧, and HOPE Pakistan 🇵🇰 Teams