By Aazer Durrani | Head of Marketing
The report unveiled by Government of Pakistan details the country’s official Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which shows a sharp decline with national poverty rates falling from 55 % to 39% from 2004 to 2016.
Rather than income and wealth alone, the MPI uses broader measures to determine poverty based on access to healthcare, education and the overall standard of living, thus giving a more detailed understanding of poverty.
The report states 38.8% of Pakistan’s population lives in poverty. A majority of the rural population (54.6%) lives in acute poverty while this ratio is only 9.4% in urban areas, emphasizing the need to make rural-centric economic policies.
The more alarming indicator is the intensity of poverty, as each poor person lacks access to half of the indicators selected for measuring poverty. The MPI findings show 60.6% of Pakistan’s population does not have access to cooking fuel, 48.5% do not complete schooling, almost four out of every 10 people (39%) do not have any assets and over 38% of the population lives in a one-room shelter. About one-third population does not have access to health facilities.
Because of which, there is a wide number of young souls who cannot afford a meal or clothes. However, their determination and courage makes our heart swell with pride. We take initiative of bringing them to schools and providing them education with food and clothes.
Every season, NUR Foundation donates clothes to the underprivileged children bringing smiles and spreading love. The numbers are increasing day by day but we still make it a point to distribute as many as we can among the needy children. Along with providing education to them, it is very important to nurture and groom them. Nothing could be a better experience than the smile that is seen on those innocent faces which has to be the real reward. As the winter is approaching, we require your support in providing these children with clothing in order to keep them warm. Since they lack basic facilities, it is an obligation for us to support them by providing basic education and necessities for them to grow. These children are the future of Pakistan and we need to ensure they are provided with proper clothing especially when the winter is round the corner.
With your continued and generous support, we can make their lives better.
Keep your support coming and we hope it continues to grow in future.
Thank you so much!
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