Transforming Communities in the Walled City of Lahore
In the Walled City of Lahore, WCLA, AKRSP, and Akhuwat not only conserve and restore buildings and homes but also build lives and restore livelihoods. Sustainable Intervention Drive (SID) partnered with these dynamic players to serve the marginalized communities in the Walled City.
About SID
SID was established in 2013 in a village in South Punjab. Our mission is to work with marginalized communities in depressed demographics, focusing on projects that are scalable, replicable, and sustainable.
Reclaiming Neighbourhoods
In 2015, SID collaborated with Akhuwat and WCLA to establish the 500th Akhuwat Microfinance Branch in Gali Surgin Singh. This partnership led to the concept of ‘Reclaiming Neighbourhoods’ , which aims to align the past, present, and future of a community to implement participatory development model to uplift neighbourhoods
Communal Hubs
We currently have three Communal Hubs functioning in collaboration with WCLA, Akhuwat, Chughtai Foundation, and other sponsors empathetic to our cause.
Communal Hub 1:
A multi-hub system, a safe haven & intervention program for the most vulnerable and high-risk population, the children & communities residing inside or in the vicinity of the red light areas. It provides a platform for integration and acceptance through a participatory development model that is raising communities to raise children and youth of inner city. The hubs include Learning Hub, Health Hub, Craft & Value Hub, Food Hub, Sports & Wellness Hub, LCC – Library & Community Center, Digital Hub, ARK, Special Needs Hub, etHub, Plantation Hub.
Communal Hub 2:
This one provides boarding, educational, and skill development facilities to the youth through a system of Cluster homes in Mochi Gate provided by the Chughtai Foundation.
Communal Hub 3:
This provides opportunities to preserve our heritage and traditions and, at the same time, provide skill training, financial literacy, and employment opportunities to the community. This is through its ‘Adopt a Heritage Home/Baithak’ campaign in Gali Surgin Singh and in the Delhi Gate area. Also, working with the youth to showcase our heritage and development of cultural marketplace as a source of income for the craftsmen of the surrounding neighbourhoods.
Upcoming
Communal Hub
A Research & Trauma Centre for Children and Art Therapy Spaces in
Taxali, Walled City Lahore.
Current/Ongoing community based intervention programs
• Every child a Citizen in collaboration with NADRA, Akhuwat & WCLA safeguarding the fundamental right of citizenship
• Mentorship Program providing online educational support to the marginalized youth of walled city
• facilitation in providing interest free Microfinance loans . Freeing people from the clutches of loan sharks
• Subsidized Ration Program especially for musicians, artists, and staff of Walled City
• Tree plantation drives with our program called Growing Gulaes Garden with the SMAF taken to return this city of gardens to its original glory.
• Cleanliness Drives and provision of cloth bags to cut down on use of plastic shoppers
• Financial literacy programs for uneducated skilled labor and women
• Drives to * Fight Drug Addiction* through healthy sports activities such as martial arts.
• Buying Childhood Hours by collecting funds to support our various projects focused on street children experiencing the childhood they deserve.
• Yearly community led Winter Quilt Drive collecting in Lahore and catering all the way to Chitral/Yasin
• Projects with Minorities & Underserved communities within the reclaimed neighbourhoods fostering unity, tolerance and sense of belonging.
• Undertaking projects to provide Clean Drinking Water
• organizing events to showcase our heritage and culture
• Medical camps , diagnostic services, drug Rehab and treatment to those who cannot afford decent healthcare.
• Support operations in Yasin, Valley of the Shuhada, Ghizer district, Gilgit Baltistan
• Learning & Digital spaces for walk-in education for anyone and everyone.
• Aid & Relief mobilization for communities affected by Natural Disasters .
Through our ARK Act of Random Kindness drive, we continue to foster a culture of giving and contributing. The Communal Hub children through their flood and food drives, adopting grandparents of old home, assisting the poor now lead the way towards an equitable and just society
Your generous donations and support have made this possible. As a wise man said; great dreams are never fulfilled… They are transcended
Contact:
+ 92 302 0494859
Bank Transfer
Bank Islami Account Title : Akhuwat (Educational Services)
Account Number : 201100116060220
IBAN:PK87BKIP0201100116060220
Swift Code:BKIPPKKA
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