E-Letter - July 2020 Part 1/2

 
 

Activities that has been carried out with respect to Covid -19 Emergency Response by the PCP Certified Organizations Network.

 
     
 
Ebrahim Alibhai Foundation

 

Ebrahim Alibhai Foundation has donated cooking oil, rice, flour, machinery, and personal safety equipment. 

 

 

Chal Foundation

 

Chal Foundation (CF), in collaboration with its partner organizations, provided a relief of Rs. 10,000 each to 650 Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). The objective of the financial assistance was to support their livelihoods during the pandemic. CF has been able to restore 70% of its clinical activities in line with SOPs formulated under WHO/ISPO guidelines and Govt Directives. 

 

Aid to Leprosy Patients

 

Aid to Leprosy Patients continued its project activities and trained its staff to practice infection control measures.  

 

SPARC

 

SPARC distributed food items among the people living in the slums of Islamabad. Around 100 health and hygiene kits were distributed among the Meherabadi community. Islamic Help collaborated with SPARC to distribute food items among deprived communities in Karachi.  

 

Aahung

 

Aahung created animated videos and 6 infographics, and also organized expert sessions and radio shows aimed at creating awareness and maintaining psychosocial well-being, menstrual hygiene management (MHM) during COVID 19 crisis. Sessions and shows helped Aahung reach out to 588,861 persons. 

 

 

Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre

 

Maternity and Child Welfare Association of Pakistan organized awareness sessions about the spread of COVID 19. MALC provided ration packs to 500 deserving families. Face masks, hand sanitizers, and medical safety kits were also distributed amongst the general public and hospital staff. 

 

Progressive Education Network

 

PEN has distributed food rations among 11,100 low-income families. Besides, it has provided medical supplies to 117 hospitals in 54 cities across Pakistan. 

 

NOWPDP’s

 

NOWPDP’s has supplied ration to 3174 persons with disabilities and shifted its vocational training to virtual platforms. It facilitated PWDs with employment opportunities. 

 

Shewa Educated Social Workers Association

 

Shewa Educated Social Workers Association conducted awareness campaigns that included public announcements in streets, distribution of IEC Materials among, displaying of flexes at public places), distribution of disinfectant soaps among. Many families were assisted in financial terms as well.  

 

Rahnuma

 

Rahnuma Public School provided its students with the laptops, preloaded with 100 plus reading books, lesson videos, games that helped children learn at home. The school also distributed milk and fresh fruits amongst the students. 

 

Bunyad

 

Bunyad provided emergency relief to the families impacted by the lockdown. It provided free ration to low-income families in the districts of Rahim Yar Khan, Multan, Rajapur, Sialkot, Khushab, Sargodha, Lahore, Hafizabad, and Muzaffargarh. It distributed ration among 4200 families and equipped them with the tools to manage situations arising from the corona crisis. 

 

Saifee Hospital

 

Saifee Hospital has taken several measures to cater to COVID 19 patients. It allocated a 6 bedded step-down unit, 3 bedded NICU, a dedicated operation theatre (for emergency cases), and a 3 bedded critical unit for critically ill patients. 

Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan

 

CERP has been working with multiple partners and stakeholders to equip stakeholders with the policy tools that will help them to cope with the situation arising from the pandemic. 

 

Ameer Begum Welfare Trust

 

Ameer Begum Welfare Trust has distributed a total of 1000 Ration Packages in Lahore and Okara. This free ration distribution was funded by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency. 

 

Make-A-Wish Foundation

 

Make-A-Wish Foundation provided free ration to over 4000 families and also fulfilled the wishes of 100 children associated with the foundation. 

 

Bright Star Development Society Balochistan

 

Bright Star Development Society Baluchistan organized awareness-raising activities which included the display of banners at public places, distribution of IEC material, FM radio programs, the publication of articles in local and national newspapers. 

 

Pakistan Kidney Institute

 

Pakistan Kidney Institute continued with its services of treatment of poor patients. It has done a significant number of surgeries in these difficult times especially for cancer patients who cannot wait. The transplant program has been kept on hold to ensure patients’ safety.

 

 

SCSPEB

 

SCSPEB was involved in the provision of free ration to several families for three months. Society’s team under its education program, developed lesson plans and handed them over to the teachers to ensure students continue their educational activities. Measures were taken to ensure that teachers receive the stipends without any delay. The organization also distributed 1000 protection kits to doctors for their safety

 
 

 

CHEF International

CHEF International distributed medicines and PPEs to 60 Basic Health Units in the districts of Charsadda, Mardan, and Buner in KPK

 

 

Fatima Memorial

Fatima Memorial Hospital Lahore was amongst the first teaching hospitals to dedicate a COVID-19 Isolation Ward and Critical Care Unit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospital has been able to take care of over 100 COVID-19 patients.

 

Hashoo Foundation

Hashoo Foundation(HF) beside providing the protective equipment’s such as masks, sanitizers and soaps, has also been continuously striving to reach out to the communities that are financially stressed and helping them in facing the COVID 19 emergency. HF has been running a comprehensive COVID 19 response programme aimed at helping communities across Pakistan, working both directly and indirectly with the help of their implementing partners.

 

DE LAAS GUL (DLG)

 

DE LAAS GUL (DLG) was involved in conducting awareness sessions, distribution of free ration, masks, hand sanitizers, clothes, and cash grants. Their beneficiaries belonged to Swabi, Nowshera, and Peshawar districts in KPK. 

 
 
 

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