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Comment by Naomi Alesworth Siddique on November 4, 2011 at 2:58am

Hi Saad,

I am totally game and interested. I'm Karachi based too. Let's get together.

naomi.a@gmail.com

 

Thanks,

Naomi.

Comment by Saad Rana on November 3, 2011 at 3:18pm

Hey

 

I just recently joined this community in an effort to uphold Acumen Fund's philosophy. I noticed the Pakistan community is not an official chapter, which might mean that the Pakistan community is not doing much to make an impact on the current, but definitely not new, situation(s). I'd like to get involved and reach out to the community members and take some action. With everyone's busy schedules, I'd like to work out some meetings or such and brain storm ideas for events and programs. 

I would also like to ask where most people are based in? I myself am in Karachi

 

You can reach me on my cell phone - 0334-374-1649

Email- saadr331@gmail.com

If you have a Blackberry my BBM pin is: 2096D415

Comment by ahmad farooq on November 2, 2011 at 2:45am

hey.
I want to get involved with acumen i mailed them my CV.
They contacted me and i was selected university representative of COMSATS university of science and technology about 6 months back.
But there is no meeting call no further details floated regarding acumen???
Can you tell me the details
Lahore chapter for acumen is still there??

Comment by Abdul Mubeen on October 26, 2011 at 1:22am

How can we send thousands of children to empty schools? Please help me

 

Background

 

 My name is Abdul Mubeen. Currently I am living in Dubai, U.A.E, and I am a chartered Accountant (ACCA). I am belonging to Pakistani administered Northern Area (Gilgit Baltistan), a remote area in Himalayan - Kramkuram mountain region. My village name is called “Hudur Gujrat” (Distract Diamer Chillas) an End of the road forest village.

In 1977 Government of Pakistan announced to build a building for school in my village and fortunately after around 30 year in 2007 this school building has been completed. During these 30 years, school has educated only 8 men and 1 woman out of six thousand population area and I am the only one graduate.

There is no single dispensary and maternity home in the village as well.

Few months before I read an amazing book (three cup of tea and Stone into school), both of these books are based on the story of our area, but unfortunately non of any international NGO contact our district , because being a “ TALIBAN” holding  area this become a “ No go Area” for any international NGO.

 Although the heights   of karakroum mountain keep hide so many problems of this areas like family and ethnic discrimination, self rule of powerful families and religious Mulas over poor and minorities families, woman harassment in the name of Islam, keeping away the poor families form education and political process, all these insight stories one can not understand just pass through Islamabad to Gilgit by airline or krakrum highway and information form the “face good” politician and elders in a pleasant meetings until you reached the village side with victim families.

How we address all this issues just build school walls, small dams, water canal, road repair, providing foods and shelters?

I believe that the long term solution of all these problems is one and only “EDUCATION” especially for girls.

To deal with this single solution for the entire problems recently, I visited my village and surprise that the school buildings were empty and only one teacher was there for three schools. Animals were walking around the schools and all children were working in the field, houses or with sheep herds ……. I had raised the following question to my villagers to understand the ground problems and for my feedback.

 

Q.1. what happen if some NGO will build a school for our children?

A.1.We don’t need just school buildings “we need education and healthcare services for our children regardless it’s from inside building or open air field”. We will reedy to send our children to school if school provide one time food and education supplies same as religious mardsas are doing,  as we are poor people we can not afford all these by our self.

 

Q.2. Why you are not sending your children to school?

A.2. what is the benefit of sending our children to school? We are poor people and our children are helping us to look after our animals and cultivation. These things are helping us to increase our income.

If we will send our children to school for primary education then we have to send our children to cities for higher educations. As you know there is no community hostel and compensatory resource. So it is batter that we will not send our children to primary school and ask them to helping us in our daily activities.

 

Q.3. why our children are attracting to religious mind extremist “Madarsas”?

A.3. It’s very simple that we are poor people and Islamic Madarsas are sporting or children and our homes and we have no fear and worry about the future of our children because after getting education from Islamic Madarsas they also decide the future of our children.    

 

Request

 

After getting such concern form village elders and watching empty school building full with donkeys and dogs with my own eyes I realize that without a proper alternative compensatory long term education PLAN based on the concern of the village elders and ground realities its difficult to ensure the enrollment of children to school. Because here the real problem is poverty and luck of motivation that deprive children’s from school.

 

Being the only one graduate form my village and community I decide it’s my responsibility to start a compulsory education for all programs “The Mountain Community Welfare Program” in these remote areas of Himalayan Mountain region. 

 

Now to pursue with this mission I need your help to connect me to any individual or NGO donors to start my project, because I have limited recourses and experience to appeal the world.  

 

I hope and believe that with the help of unfailing humility people like you I will help the thousand of poor children in the remote areas to become a good citizen.

 

Please help me.

 

Thanks and regards,

Abdul Mubeen ( mubeen675@hotmail.com) or 0971-507906835.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comment by Zeeshan Shah on October 14, 2011 at 3:51am

Good day, is acumen fund in Pak working on coordinating with the other volunteer services (private) which are on the ground for the sindh flood efforts?. 

Just an idea float: there are so many private charity services within students, businessmen which are working for the relief efforts in sindh and other areas, wouldnt it be beneficial to have some sort of open source coordination  - granted non-political groups?

Comment by Noor Aftab on March 6, 2011 at 5:20am

On 8 March, 2011 (tuesday), marking 100 years of the International Women's day, Shahina Aftab Foundation (global NGO for women development) isholding the biggest celebration world wide for women at the Islamabad Club. This is an exclusive invite only event for women.

 

IFC, ADB, IHRC, WPF, DG HEC (Noor Amna Malik), Exec Director CFA Institute Pakistan, PTC, PTCL, Telenor, Mobilink and UNICEF are confirmed at the event.  Great networking opportunity. National and international media are covering the event (Reuters, BBC and VOA). Live streaming will take the event to 8 countries of the globe. To register, please send me your name, occupation (house wife works), phone, email and NIC at noor.aftab@gmail.com

Comment by Taylor Ray on January 27, 2011 at 6:17pm

Acumen Fund is looking for Summer Associates! There are 3 positions available in Pakistan, make sure you check them out:

 

http://blog.acumenfund.org/2011/01/27/seeking-high-impact-individua...

Comment by Muhammad Hashim khetran on December 7, 2010 at 5:05am

Salam to all Members of
Pakistan for Acumen its Hashim khetran frm Balochistan and Executive Director of SAHARA welfare Society Balochistan.and i need help to know that how can this group heop the non profit organization named SAHARA for the welfare of people in rural areas of balochistan in the field of food security health and education.

Comment by Saima Irtiza on June 8, 2010 at 12:24am

Job Announcement: Acumen Fund Pakistan is looking to hire a a Portfolio Associate. All those interested in applying, or who need additional information, please go to the following link:

https://acumenfund.tms.hrdepartment.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?...

Comment by Ayesha Hoda on May 4, 2010 at 10:57am

In what ways can we volunteer or do some freelance work for The Acumen Fund in Pakistan?

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