Al Firdous School in Barakahu /Islamabad were supported by IFWA Bazaar 2020. Schoolvisit was done by IFWA in Jan 2020; due to Covid lockdown fundraising could only be done end of 2020 and IFWA paid school material in February 2021.

• NGO, designs and implements community driven projects for socio economic development

• Provide quality education and skills to under privileged children

• 454 kids from Play Group to grade 10

• Education, books, uniform, meals etc are provided free of cost

• Creates awareness and opportunity for most families around Barakhau to send their children to school

• Vocational center provides skills to girls (sewing, cooking, dress design…) and boys (plumbing, phone repairing, IT)

• Needs funds to keep initiative going (building mantainance, furniture, uniforms, books)

• Permanently suppported by German Embassy

Care for Special Person Foundation was founded in 1992 by a group of parents of children with special need and mentally challenged. The institute offers physiotherapy, speech therapy, fine art skills and other vocational training such as computer skills to nurture their talents and help them blend into the society as well as obtain an employment. IFWA contributed to the purchase of physiotherapy equipment, furniture, heater, uniforms, and a scale.

• Founded in 2018, connected to the church

• 80-100 students, pre-school to grade 1 (prepared for governmental schools)

• For the school building parents were asked to help and therefor got a job and a salary

• Construction work still ongoing to create space for more students (Streets are still full of children who are not in school) – aim to teach as many children as possible

• NL charity organization gave 5000 Euro (via Mergreet) and will continue their support – but never give more than 5000 Eura a year.

• Robert Bhatti´s wife (Philippina) is the principal and a teacher

Good Shepard School has given a list of items needed.

For Ramadan 2025, IFWA financed packages of lentils, basan and kinoos for all the families of the Haraf Foundation School.

IFWA's members filled 200 paper bags with 10 kinoos each to distribute to each kid.

Miss Jannat-ul-Firdous initiated the philanthropist project of Al-Firdous School in Barakahu during the year 2012. She commenced the project with a small sewing center for women in the vicinity of Saiban Hill. Later, she realized that children around the area were not provided with any educational facility so she transformed the sewing centre into a school in 2012. The school runs on family-based donations received from the relatives of Miss Jannat and no tuition fee is charged by from the students.

In December 2021, IFWA donated money toward the of purchase of 100 wheelchairs for needed women and children in Pakistan in cooperation with the Dawood Global Foundation through their LadiesFund initiative. The wheelchairs were gifted at a ceremony at the National Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in the presence of he first lady of Pakistan Mrs Alvi on 26 January 2022.

The monitoring report states: based on the doctors‘ recommendation, 86 wheelchairs were given to Spinal injury and Paralysis patients to be used in their homes. 14 wheelchairs have been allocated to Operation theatre, OPD and wards at NIDM and are in ready use. “I am very happy that the wheelchairs donated by IFWA will improve the quality of life of disabled women and give them more independence.” (Irena Smetankova, IFWA President)

IFWA visited the Gosha e Mashal centre in October 2019 to provide 8 sewing machines. They were donated as gifts to women who had finished their training in the Vocational Center – to help them to become independent entrepreneurs and earn money with their newly learned skills.

• Mission: To bring meaningful change in the lives of girls and women in the community – through education, employability and entrepreneur skills

• The centre named “Gosha-e-Mashal” became operational in 1996-’97. (a complex, on 2600 sq. yds)

• It is located 12 km from Islamabad in Margalla Town and surrounded by about 9 villages and “kachi abadies” in dire need of help.

• Mashal Association with the help of donations by C.I.D.A, J.I.C.A and UN Women’s Guild (based in Rome, Italy) and its own fund raising resources has been able to build this centre

• Masal Association at their Gosha e Mashal Centre houses a school for girls up to grade 10, a fully equipped medical unit, a vocational training centre and a library

• School: 170 girls, vocational training 25-30 young women, medical centre: 300 patients per week

• How can you help: sponsor a student´s education, help build a classroom, donate cash, buy tables/tickets at our fundraiser, donate medicines

IFWA visited the school twice in 2019, CFSP were supported by IFWA Bazaar 2019 with furniture (tables and chairs) TV screen and carpenter work.

• Set up by parents of special needs children and a group of professionals in that field in 1992

• Provides a house as “centre” for education and physical training, clinical assessment, counselling for parents (very constricted class rooms, cramped confines, no outdoor area)

• Offers speech therapy, physio-therapy. Fine arts skills, computer training, khadi work for students

• Pick-up and drop off by drivers/vans

• Asked for laptops, necessary chairs and desks, TV screen, fuel for vans and salary for teachers (IFWA would only pay for items directly to the vendors, not for fuel or salary)

• Rawalpindi EIC is a girl´s hostel

• Founded in 2019, well established

• Accommodates up to 30 Christian girls, age between 7-17 years, free of costs for families

• Girls come from difficult backgrounds (very poor, handicapped parent, house violation, drug addiction, - the girls would have no chance for education in their families, some are orphans…) – every background is checked carefully to avoid cheating and beware saftyness

• Girls up to grade 10 go to a catholic school outside the hostel (taken there by van)

• In the afternoon tuition teachers help the children in hostel to do their homework and learn.

• Also extracurricular activities are offered (trips and outings)

• Sonja is leading the hostel, she is German, she came to Pakistan 10 years ago and lives with two other German Ladies, Dr. Chris (in Pakistan for 35 years) and Sr Annette (in Pakistan for 23 years) on the grounds of the Rawalpindi Leprosy Hospital.

• The funding of the project comes through a scholarship program. Most girls have sponsors, mainly based in Germany, who cover their monthly educational expenses. All other expenses need to be covered by donations.

• Head office of EIC is in Germany Local office situated on the grounds of the Rawalpindi Leprosy Hospital. ( Leprosity Hospital, 130 beds, focus on TB and eye problems since leprosity nowadays is seldom in Pakistan, supports the hostel)

• External audit is being held every year

HARAF Foundation is a Charity Organization that tirelessly works to bring a quality change  in the lives of underprivileged children who are residing in rural area of Pin Sangrial in periphery of Islamabad. Founded by Farah Ayub Tarin, a former civil servant, the foundation has been providing education with a little fee or free of charge for those who are not able to afford it with the help a group of teachers, who are all committed volunteers. IFWA contributed to the purchase of UPS, tables, benches, chairs and plastic roof so that the children could play outside during recess.