Getting Involved
Following on the heels of our numerous successful voluntary efforts in the past, we would like to encourage you to maintain the spirit of volunteerism in our local community throughout the coming year.
Finding the right opportunity to give your time and share a part of yourself with others is easy!
Simply click on the Volunteer Management System, which will give you all the information you need regarding our various social sector partners and the endless opportunities they offer for you to get more involved in changing the lives of the less privileged.
Old Grammarians Society (OGS)
OGS, founded in 1984, with a modest base of 50 members is the alumni association of one of the premier educational institutions of Pakistan, the Karachi Grammar School (KGS). Over the years, the role of the Society has evolved to providing financial assistance for under privileged students throughout Pakistan. OGS is a vibrant organization with a membership base of over 1000 chapters in Karachi, Lahore, London,
Scholarships are granted after an informed decision making process that includes a detailed application, interview with a Scholarship Committee that consists of the current President and past 6 OGS Presidents. The Scholarship Committee awards merit based scholarships to students whose family circumstances do not allow for education expenditure; however, quarterly reviews of academic performance are undertaken to ensure that students benefiting from the scholarship are taking full advantage of the facility being provided to them. While there are exceptions, OGS Trust aims to support a particular individual until such time that the person has commenced a professional career and can start contributing to his/her family.
Several of the scholarship recipients have received merit based scholarships for education in colleges in UK and USA (e.g. Yale, Princeton, Cambridge). However, OGS Trust limits its assistance to education institutions in Pakistan due to the limited funds at its disposal.
For further information on how you can play a role in helping OGS to achieve its objectives please visit their website at: http://www.ogs.com.pk
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Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center (MALC)
Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre (MALC) is the largest NGO working in the field of Leprosy in Pakistan for the last four decades, in collaboration with the Provincial Health Departments of Sindh, Baluchistan, N.W.F.P, Northern Area and Azad Kashmir. The Centre arranges free of cost treatment for Leprosy in all of its 157 centers/Sub centers around the country, as well as socio-economic rehabilitation for the deserving cases. Its head-quarter is situated in Karachi and houses a training institute for paramedical workers trained as Leprosy/Tuberculosis/Ophthalmic Technicians. Furthermore, its 80-bedded hospital is the main secondary referral facility not only for Pakistan, but also for neighboring Afghanistan.
MALC is registered as a non profit charitable organization functioning entirely through donations from international and local donors, in partnership with the provincial governments, other NGO’s and private individuals. The annual operating budget consists of these donations, and the cash inflows permit the provision of free treatment.
Besides monetary donations, MALC has designed various products/options and marketing concepts to raise funds to augment the donations. These include the adoption of extended leprosy control centers; adoption of the main hospital in Saddar, Karachi; earthquake relief fund; sponsorship of specific events.
For more information on how you can get more involved with this cause please visit their website at: http://www.malc.org.pk
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SOS Children’s Village
SOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental social development organization, which has been active in the field of children's needs, concerns and rights since 1949. Its activities focus on neglected and abandoned children and orphans, as well as disadvantaged families. SOS safeguards a child’s right to care, protection and equal opportunities. This is the basic principle according to which SOS Children's Villages carries out its activities in 132 countries and territories. SOS Children's Villages provide family based care and make it possible for children to be part of a family once again. Furthermore, in many cases, SOS provides preventive care to support and stabilize families in times of crisis in order to prevent families from breaking up and children to be uprooted. SOS also provides various "family strengthening" programmes and facilities, which offer targeted promotion, support and advice for socially and economically disadvantaged families at risk of living in poverty.
In addition to providing care for children and young people, running family strengthening programmes and providing vocational training, SOS Children's Villages also caters to people's basic health care through its medical centers in many different locations. These centers are designed for educational and preventive purposes (particularly in the fight against AIDS) and to teach people how best to care for their children and their children's health.
Volunteers can get involved through donations, becoming SOS Children’s Village Sponsors, or supporting a specific aid project.
For more information please visit: http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org
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The Citizen’s Foundation (TCF)
TCF is a professionally managed NGO, established in August 1995 and formally incorporated in September 1996. The organization’s mission is to promote mass-scale quality education at the primary and secondary levels in an environment that encourages intellectual, moral and spiritual growth. TCF runs its network of well-managed, purpose-built schools in urban slums and rural areas across Pakistan and serves all persons and communities on a completely non-discriminatory basis.
For more information on how you can get more involved with this cause please visit their website at: http://www.thecitizensfoundation.org
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IBA
The Institute of Business Administration (IBA), the oldest graduate business school outside North America, was established in April 1955 in collaboration with the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Pennsylvania. Later, it was associated with the University of Southern California. IBA is currently the largest graduate business school in the Third World.
The recurrent theme of the 50 years of IBA's existence is that business education should be relevant and looking to the future. The IBA provides an enabling environment, conducive to scholarship and research. The IBA programs are designed to provide world-class professional managers and entrepreneurs for the business and industry in Pakistan.
For more information on how you can get more involved with the initiative of educational development, through IBA, please visit their website at: http://www.iba.edu.pk
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Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
The Lahore University of Management Sciences was granted a charter by the Government of Pakistan in March 1985. The University has expanded rapidly ever since and currently has three schools: the Suleman Dawood School of Business, The School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Science and Engineering.
LUMS is a pre-eminent academic institution, serving as a catalyst for economic prosperity and social development with a focus on management of resources. It strives to achieve this vision through teaching and research activities that are nationally and regionally relevant, and meet the highest international standards.
For more information on how you can get more involved with the initiative of educational development, through LUMS, please visit their website at: http://www.lums.edu.pk
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Fatimid Foundation
Fatimid Foundation was established in Karachi as a Non Profit Organization by late Mr. Nazim Jiwa in 1979. The major aim of establishing this Organization was to provide cost free blood/blood components to patients suffering from various chronic blood disorders requiring blood/blood component therapy as an essential part of their treatment. To date the Organization has grown in stature to "National" level, with the opening of treatment Centers at Lahore, Multan and Peshawar.
Fatimid Foundation, is the pioneer of voluntary blood transfusion services in Pakistan. Even in terms of quantitative output of blood and blood products, Fatimid Foundation is the leader of the fraternity of blood transfusion services in Pakistan. Affiliated with the World Federation of Hemophilia, International Society of Blood Transfusion and Thalassaemia, and the International Federation, Fatimid provides specialized services for patients with various blood disorders. This foundation transfuses around 10,000 bags of healthy screened blood and blood products every month for its registered patients suffering from chronic and painful blood disorders.
Millions of patients whose lives depend on blood transfusions are indebted to millions of blood donors all over the world. There is no substitute for blood, and there can be no cause nobler than donating blood to save a life. If you are interested in donating blood, or making a charitable contribution to the Fatimid Foundation, please visit their website for more information. http://www.fatimid.org
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Special Olympics
Special Olympics International is a worldwide organization founded by Mrs Eunice Shriver (sister of late President John F Kennedy of USA), which promotes the development of sports programs for the intellectually disabled. It is officially recognized by the International Olympics Committee and operates in over 150 countries. The organization believes that people with intellectual disabilities can, with proper instruction and encouragement, learn, enjoy, and benefit from participation in individual and team sports. Special Olympics provides these children with consistent training to develop their sports skills and organizes competitions in which those of equal abilities compete and achieve personal growth. Sports training and competition benefit people with Intellectual Disability physically, mentally, socially and spiritually. Their families and the communities are also helped at large, both through participation and observation.
For more information on Special Olympics please contact: http://www.specialolympicspk.org
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Kidney Center
The Kidney Centre Post Graduate Training Institute is committed to provide quality renal health care services. Situated in the heart of Karachi, the Kidney Centre is a non-profit institution that provides prompt medical treatment for all nephrourological ailments under one roof. It is a 100-bed, specialist institution providing complete care for prophylaxis and therapeutic management of nephro-urological diseases that meets the highest international standard. The Kidney Centre Post Graduate Training Institute also serves as an excellent teaching, research and continuing educational institution for nephrology, urology and related fields.
The Kidney Centre encourages individuals to perform volunteer social work and community service. In this context, it allows internships for community service to young individuals both from within the country and aboard. The volunteers who do community service will have access to patients in different departments which include Emergency Department, Dialysis Centre, Filter Clinic, Kidney Stone Centre, Enuresis Centre, Prostate Assessment Clinic, In-patient Ward and Lithotripsy.
For more information on how you can get more involved with this cause please visit their website at: http://www.kidneycentre.com
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Al-Mehrab Tibbi Imdad
Al-Mehrab Tibbi Imdad is a society which provides free medical aid and sanctuary to destitute and needy patients suffering from terminal illnesses, particularly Cancer. The society was established and registered on 11 th October 1997 in Karachi, and it provides a haven for those individuals who have no one to extend to them the prolonged and dedicated care required to nurse cancer patients. The hospice provides personalized post medical services such as timely medical doses, chemotherapy, mental and emotional counseling, free food and lodging. It also provides training to family members on how to effectively care for these patients at home.
For more information on how you can get more involved with this cause please contact them at:
B-11, Block-A,
Sindhi Muslim Co-operative Housing Society,
Karachi-Pakistan.
Telephone: 6014697-6015289
E-mail:al.mehrab@yahoo.com
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Rising Sun Institute (RSI)
RSI was established in 1984, as is an institution which trains and educates special children so that they can live their lives to the fullest potential. The institution currently has two campuses which provide specialized services to 276 children, and a new campus is under construction which will cater to another 350 special children. RSI schools provide individualized education plans to children with autism, Down ’s syndrome, hyperactivity and cerebral palsy. These children are given speech therapy, psychotherapy, training in personal hygiene and grooming, computer education, religious education and vocational training. Moreover, in order to boost their self confidence they are also encouraged to participate in various social and cultural activities along with sports, International Special Olympics and music.
To get more involved with this cause please contact the Rising Sun Institute at:
544/2 XX Sector,
Phase III,D.H.A.
Lahore Cantt
Tel: 5899252-5893260,5742850
E-mail: risingsuninstitute@yahoo.com
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Concern for Children
Concern for Children Trust (CFC) is a non profit, non government organization, founded in 1997. the main premise of this NGO is Designing, implementing and replicating models for sustainable development for children within at-risk populations based on an intensive needs assessment. In prior years, CFC has paid special attention to preventive and primary health care, health education and health awareness. While still engaged in these areas, CFC has now turned its focus upon a specialized area: the identification (via needs' assessments), conception and eventual replication (upon successful implementation/ trials) of pilot projects.
For more information on this project please visit: http://www.concernforchildren.org.pk
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