The team will be spending a week in Pakistan travelling throughout the provinces of Punjab and Sindh and visiting various Muslim Charity programmes along the way. Tomorrow, they travel to Jhang to visit the Maternity Hospitals established in Faisalabad and District Jhang as well as the Orphanage and Vulnerable Children (OVC) programme in a village near Jhang where Muslim Charity is constructing the “Riaz-ul-Karam Academy and Orphanage” to cater for 400 vulnerable children. From Jhang, the team will travel down to Kot Addu where Muslim Charity built homes for the flood affected communities whose homes were destroyed following the tragic floods of 2010. They will also be visiting water wells and water hand pumps installed in the district of Rajanpur and then onwards to Sanjarpur where Muslim Charity in association with Help The Needy Charitable Trust and the Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Foundation For Humanitarian Services (RAF – Qatar) constructed a village comprising of 200 homes, a masjid, clinic, school and park for flood affected communities.
In the later part of the week the team will visit Tharparker, one of the driest and impoverished regions of Sindh, Pakistan, where Muslim Charity’s Safe Water programme is literally saving and sustaining lives for vulnerable communities. The team will then head to Karachi and en route visit some Masjids constructed by Muslim Charity’s Masjid Programme.
We wish the team well and look forward to hearing from the team when they return back to the UK following their visit in which they will be covering over 1,500 kilometres in around 8 days travelling through the remotest and needy areas of Pakistan to see the difference Muslim Charity’s donors and supporters make to the lives of the needy.
You will be able to watch a documentary of the visit and hear from Naeem Raza and Sadia Sheikh with their thoughts on the visit at an upcoming Charity Dinner to be held in Glasgow on 19th April 2013 at the Marriot Hotel.
