By Azeem Christopher | Program Coordinator
Dear Donors,
Thank you very much for the initial support and helping us get our initial target of $ 5000 to attain a permanent spot on Global Giving. The organization has been working since 1994 and so far has benefitted more than 86000 direct beneficiraies through its interventions and programs.
In this project so far AWARD Pakistan has done the initial workings such as the areas interviews of the beneficiaries and the selection of the target areas. As discussed in the previous report the interviews from the 3 marginalized rural areas were conducted and Bilal Nagar, Tehsil Jhumra, Faisalabad was selected for the distribution of loan.
20 women (the deserving of all) were interviwed on December 01,2015 from the area Bilal Nagar,Tehsil Jhumra, Faisalabad. A group of 5 women has been has been selected from the 20 interviwees and a business development training was conducted with the Business group to improve their knowledge on managing the business.In the training they were taught about types of lands, types of vegetable farming,the process of venegtable farming, Book keeping and Money handing. The other 15 women who for some reason were not been selected for the loan were also invited to attend the training along with some other women so that in future they would be benefitted from the training.
At the end of the training a loan of Rs.60,000 was given to the 5 women so that they could get a land on contract basis and start growing the vegetables. The selection of land is under process as the 5 women with the help of their husbands are looking for a suitable land which should be somehow closer to the village (Bilal Nagar) to have easy access. In this regard the negotiations are going on with few land owners and the it will soon be finalized. With the selection of the land (which is expected to be done at the end of Feb 28,2016) the 5 women will start the vegetable farming and that would be mentioned in the next report which is due in May,2016.
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