User:Subuls/sandbox/HOPE

Goals
Strong Citations: Website ; Annual Report 2017 (has the most updated numbers and is public but not released online); HOPE USA (lots of good stats to verify. Looks current); HOPE UK (slightly outdated but general info is good to go); Project Aqua (outdated but official sooo)

Strong/Credible: *search for more articles from these domains: The Tribune (adoption) ; UN Women (women economic empowerment) ; P&G Pakistan (school expansion)

Meh: Blush for PK women (Dr. Mubina) ; I am the change (synopsis) ; PR Log (Ramadan iftar, gift, dinner) ; 3BL Media (P&G partnership for clean water in disaster areas)

searches done: hope ngo pakistan(20 pages, 199) searches to try: pg, standard charter?; project aqua; hope usa

idek: https://www.prlog.org/search.html?cx=008136829352670896076%3Ar8qsxlwlip4&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=health+oriented+preventive+education&sa=Search https://www.ilmkidunya.com/educational_organizations/educational_ngos_pakistan_health_oriented_preventive_education_hope.aspx http://www.hhs.edu.pk/activities/page/26/

- Suggested Pictures & Graphics: Map - page 4 of Annual Report 2016, current equivalent. Aka showing where all facilities/projects are; Logo + Motto; 1 picture for each category and subcategory

Add HOPE to These Categories and/or WikiProjects:
Add: List of non-governmental organisations based in Karachi; List of schools in Pakistan; List of educational institutions in Multan; List of schools in Pakistan; add in multan (muzzafargarh) and kashmir; both home schools

Add to These Pages and/or Their Subcategories (recursive): Lists of educational institutions in Pakistan; Category:Schools in Pakistan by populated place; Category:Pakistan; WikiProject Pakistan; WikiProject Karachi; WikiProject Sindh

Link from these pages: Education in Karachi; Health care in Karachi; Healthcare in Pakistan

General
or alternatively...here we go

just leave the entire thing and add more stuff to individual sections

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Health Oriented Preventive Education (HOPE) is a Pakistan NGO which provides the poor with service in the sectors of health and education, particularly focusing on women and children. Founded in July 1997, it is mainly based in Karachi, the largest city in Pakistan, and its vicinity, but is working nationwide through its offices.

For the health care services, HOPE runs several medical centers, providing primary health care services for those who cannot afford private hospitals. Some other services are also involved: nutrition support for malnourished mothers and children, distribution of water-purifying agent for the access to safe water, ante-natal care for reducing maternal mortality rate, etc.

For better education of children, which is often disregarded in today’s Pakistan, HOPE founded three formal schools (Karachi Zia Colony School, Muzaffargarh School and Thatta School) and almost 200 home schools. Home schools, in specific, are fighting illiteracy, and this effort ends up in helping both uneducated and educated girls in the community. Teenage girls who gave up learning are taught by more educated girls. In this way young girls are provided with education, while older girls are provided with stable jobs for their living. In the situation that many students drop out of school because of the expensive education cost, HOPE schools seek to give them another opportunity of education. For example, literacy classes for adults and vocational training such as sewing, embroidery, computer, and English courses are also provided.

HOPE also arranges emergency relief in the case of floods or earthquake. For example, when the 2008 Ziarat earthquake (a doublet earthquake) occurred, several relief operations were conducted by HOPE team consisted of doctors, paramedics, and social workers. HOPE provided food, proof tents, and clothes as well as medical care, and more than 6000 people were stood to benefit.

All these projects of HOPE are under the motto of ‘self-sufficiency’ and ‘sustainability’, which means that the goal of HOPE is to help the community reach sustainable development by achieving self-sufficiency. They try this by largely working in cooperation with Community Based Organizations (CBO’S) CBO’S are often considered more effective in meeting the community’s need and better implementation, which gives more reasons for HOPE to work with CBO’S.

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Health Care
HOPE has created a network of health care facilities including secondary care hospitals, maternal and child centers, and mobile health units. All of these emphasize the health of women and children in particular, but provide a vast range of medical services from surgeries and emergency care to neonatal services, all done by qualified doctors. Most importantly, the facilities provide health care to the underprivileged who would otherwise be unable to afford private health care.

Hospitals
Located in slum areas, HOPE hospitals are proper secondary care facilities complete with fully equipped operation theaters, labs, medicines and tests. There are 4 total hospitals, located in Zia Colony (Karachi), Gurumandir, Thatta, and Sujawal.

Karachi and Gurumandir
The secondary care hospitals in Karachi and Gurumandir treat 278,280 patients annually. Services include 24 hour emergency care, a fully equipped operation theater, ultrasounds and x-rays, and lab tests.

Thatta
Thatta lacks quality health care infrastructure, so patients are usually referred to Karachi, which is around 100 km from Karachi. This distance is oftentimes prohibitive for patients due to transportation costs and time.

HOPE's secondary care hospital fills this void and treats 213,480 patients annually. Like the Karachi and Gurumandir hospitals, Thatta's also hosts a fully equipped operation theater, as well as incubators and an ICU.

Sujawal
Just like Thatta, Sujawal is far from Karachi (about 150 km) and lacks adequate health care facilities.

The newest of HOPE's secondary care hospitals, the one in Sujawal used to be a Basic Health Unit providing only outpatient care. Now it sees 60,480 patients annually and also has an operation theater and incubators.

Maternal and Child Centers (MCCs)
MCCs are outpatient facilities providing primary health care to communities in slum areas, where families live in poor conditions, and have limited or no access to healthcare facilities.There are 2 centers, in Mujahid and Manzoor Colonies, run by lady health visitors and staffed by qualified doctors and paramedical staff, which provide preventive and curative health care to mothers and children. Mothers can receive antenatal care, ultrasounds, immunization, growth monitoring, treatment of minor illnesses, and family planning services. Children can receive IV fluids, nutritional support, and help with management of diarrhea, pneumonia, and acute respiratory infections. Medicines and ultrasounds are provided free of cost, and overall, 20280 patients are seen annually.

Mobile Health Units (MHUs)
There are many rural areas that lack proper health facilities. One such regions is the rural vicinity of Karachi, within 1-2 hours' drive. Many patients in this area are either reluctant or unable (due to monetary costs, time costs, or transportation issues) to travel this distance for healthcare. To address this, HOPE collaborates with Asia Petroleum to operate 2 mobile health units, which each see 110-120 patients daily (for an annual total of 72384 patients). Each village is visited once a week, and the clinic is set up in the home of a community leader. This gives credibility and allows the villagers to be more comfortable, thus increasing community involvement. Treatments and medicines provided are free of cost.

Education
Children from impoverished or disadvantaged families are unable to attend school because of fees and tuition, and accompanying costs, such as stationery, copies, etc. Government schools are understaffed and unreliable, so students at these schools do not receive quality education. In other cases, children are working as laborers in factories and fields to supplement their families' incomes, or simply loitering in the streets because they do not understand the benefits of schooling. It is in these spaces in slums and rural villages that HOPE establishes schools.

Formal Schools
There are 3 HOPE Formal Schools: Karachi Zia Colony, with an enrollment of 610 students; Thatta, with an enrollment of 340 students; and Muzaffargarh, with an enrollment of 320 students. The schools serve poor communities where families are unable to afford tuition or accompanying expenses, such as stationery. Thus, these students are provided free-of-cost education and educational supplies, including uniforms, stationery, school bags, and more.

Additionally, students take board exams and are highly encouraged to participate in extracurricular activities.

Informal Schools
Informal schools are located in slum areas and villages, in the houses of the teachers. These teachers are women who are provided an honoraria for their services. Students have no uniform but are provided a free education, incinluding all incidental costs such as textbooks, stationery, bags, etc. HOPE currently has 180 schools total, each with around 30-40 children, for a total of 6570 students. Areas covered are Karachi's urban sector (Manzoor Colony, Bilal Colony, Mujahid Colony, Bhittaiabad, and Sachal Goth); Karachi's rural sector (Gadap, Ghaggar, and Link Road); Interior Sindh; and Thatta, Badin, and Sanghar.

Northern Areas School Network
The northern areas of Pakistan present geographical barriers to education. Villages are often times small and remote, or located far from each other. It is too costly and inefficient to have one small school per mountain, but it is also unrealistic to expect girls and small children to trek for hours to and from school. Still, HOPE has founded 35 schools, all registered, in Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) areas, about 3-4 hours away from Muzaffarabad by road. Many of these locations are cut off for days at a time due to heavy snowfall. This school system has 1810 students, who receive a free education as well as books, copies, bags, and stationery.

Water Sanitation Services
Due to high water contamination and infrastructural problems, clean drinking water is a luxury many do not have in much of Pakistan, especially in slum and rural areas. Thus, HOPE, in collaboration with

HOPE provided 11 million liters of clean drinking water to 50,000 people for a 4 month supply. The campaign also provided water coolers, buckets, ICE material for information dissemination, and demonstrations for water purification and sanitation. 345,000 families in AJK were also provided sachets____what____.

hope team visited tharparker may 2017

team

Hand Pump (Project Aqua)
In many rural villages, women must travel far distances to obtain water, and carry it back themselves. In these locations, HOPE USA donors and Project Aqua (a _______subgroup___ of HOPE USA), sponsored the installation of 51 handpumps. 250+ feet deep, they provide fresh, clean water to the members of the community. Areas covered include Thatta, Badin, Sakro, Dhabeji, Kathore, Link Road, Tharparker.

Vocational Centers
HOPE's Vocational centers provide 1360 students skill-based technical education annually. Courses include sewing and cutting; computer; and language. These empower not only boys, but girls and women to be able to earn a respectable living and gain economic leverage.

Language Center_____________________________________________________

only zia and bilal confirmed

Ramadan Programs
Ramadan programming includes holding multiple iftars for HOPE's school children, ration distribution, Eid clothes distribution, and daily distribution of iftar or biryani boxes. The annual Grand Iftaar is held for 1700 HOPE students in Zia Colony and is sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank. There are also iftars in Muzaffargarh, Bhittaiabad, and Thatta - all for students attending HOPE schools in those areas, whether formal or informal. At these iftars, students get lavish iftars and dinners, entertainment and activities, and rations and Eid gifts.

Additionally, around 4000 families are provided meals, either iftar or dinner, everyday. 2100 families all over Pakistan receive 1 months' supply of ration, which consists of rice, wheat, sugar, lentils, tea, milk, etc. Eid gifts are another key part of Ramadan programming. In 2017, more than 1800 HOPE school children from all over Pakistan received new festive Eid clothes, which their families would have been otherwise unable to afford.

Emergency Relief
flood, earthquakes

2008 Ziarat earthquake