Providing new clothes for Eid to 1350 poor kids

The most incurable disease for Pakistan is inflation which is devouring the poor day by day. Our people live a very vulnerable life because of poverty. Nearly 39% of Pakistanis live under multidimensional poverty. More than a third of Pakistan’s population is living below the poverty line. Balochistan has the highest rate of poverty, Sindh comes second, followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and then Punjab.

According to experts, our poverty is caused by inflation, unequal distribution of resources, lack of facilities, high unemployment rates, and growing population. Inflation has become an epidemic disease which gives birth to multiple issues.

NUR Foundation took an initiative in 1985 and started a program known as NUR Community Outreach Program (NCOP). The purpose was to serve the community in various sectors including, health, education and employment. Additionally, various programs under the aegis of NCOP are working to ameliorate poverty. One such program is NUR Sandooq which has its genesis in the year 2016. The idea behind it was to make storage facilities for donated clothing in all the elite areas of Lahore and to encourage people to donate apparel items for the underserved community. In execution of the plan, one dedicated room known as Sandooq is placed in Fatima Memorial Hospital, Shadman Lahore. The donors often come and drop off apparel items in the Sandooq and those items are then distributed among the underprivileged people living in the backward areas of Lahore including Malikpur, Nainsukh, Lakhodair and Gajjumata.

In addition to this, our team is in constant touch with the donors and in the past three months, we arranged various cloth distribution events at our schools in collaboration with our esteemed donors. In August 2019, school uniforms and shoes were distributed among 526 students at NUR Foundation’s school at Malikpur. Later in September 2019, a gift distribution event was held at Nainsukh and gifts including packs of candies and everyday apparel items were distributed among the children of NUR Foundation.

There are a total of around 1465 students currently enrolled at NUR Foundation schools and they all belong to impoverished backgrounds and are unable to afford two basic meals of the day let alone clothing items. Hence, we wish to increase our donor base in the future which would help us in meeting the clothing needs of the children at NUR schools.

We request and urge our donors to continue supporting the cause. Thank you so much.

NUR Community Outreach Program (NCOP) which started out in the year 1985 continues to serve the community in various sectors including, health, education and employment. Additionally, various programs under the aegis of NCOP are working to ameliorate poverty. One such program is NUR Sandooq which has its genesis in the year 2016. The idea behind it was to make storage facilities for donated clothing in all the elite areas of Lahore and to encourage people to donate apparel items for the underserved community. In execution of the plan, one dedicated room known as Sandooq is placed in Fatima Memorial Hospital, Shadman Lahore. The donors often come and drop off apparel items in the Sandooq and those items are then distributed among the underprivileged people living in the backward areas of Lahore including Malikpur, Nainsukh, Lakhodair and Gajjumata.

In addition to this, our team is in constant touch with the donors and in the past three months, we arranged various cloth distribution events at our schools in collaboration with our esteemed donors. In August 2019, school uniforms and shoes were distributed among 526 students at NUR Foundation’s school at Malikpur. Later in September 2019, a gift distribution event was held at Nainsukh and gifts including packs of candies and everyday apparel items were distributed among the children of NUR Foundation.

There are a total of around 1465 students currently enrolled at NUR Foundation schools and they all belong to impoverished backgrounds and are unable to afford two basic meals of the day let alone clothing items. Hence, we wish to increase our donor base in the future which would help us in meeting the clothing needs of the children at NUR schools.

Thank you for your continued support!