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Safia Foundation was Established in December 2012 Registered at Trust Registrar under the trust Act 1882 with Registration No. 2002.

Safia Foundation has been working on various types of disabilities across Pakistan. The aim of SF is to rehabilitate disable individuals to make them self reliant, dignified and contributing members of the society.

Safia foundation is providing services to Persons with disabilities and Parents/Guardians in terms of counseling, education, health & rehabilitation, skill development, psycho social uplift and community mobilization.

VISION

Safia foundation (SF) as an organization has the vision of strengthening and empowering lives of persons with disabilities and creating opportunities for them.

MISSION

Safia foundation is committed to serve humanity by integrating resources for people with disabilities for the pleasure of Allah.​

Shamsa Kanwal

Chair Person (Safia Foundation)

Objectives

The key objectives of Safia Foundation are

  • Promote independent living concept amongst persons with disabilities
  • Explore potential professionals amongst Persons with disabilities
  • Impart self management and other skill for independent living
  • Create awareness for inclusive living for persons with disabilities within our society
  • Facilitate persons with disabilities to get education and technical skills and improve standard of their lives
  • Provision of assistive devices in collaboration with donor agencies

Progress Review​

Safia Foundation has the aim to make Persons with disabilities living better, independent and sustainable. They focus on making disability a power, not weakness. In 2022 Safia foundation facilitated approximately 1077 persons with disabilities in different terms. Safia foundation organized different events, distributions and awareness sessions in which all item according to projects were distributed. i.e. Health & Rehabilitation, Educational support, Assistive devices provision, Micro financing, food for hunger, seasonal gift of LIBAS , Mental health (independent living ) Advocacy & Awareness Raising all project activities are further designed accordingly following these goals.

Health & Rehabilitation is one of the leading issues in Pakistan. Persons with disabilities experience more struggle to gain access to these basic facilities. SF has therefore initiated activities where they provide health facilities and other health or physical need based assets to Persons with disabilities to make their mobility and routine based activities easy. An effort leading to success in provision of Health & Rehabilitation facilities have been reflected in the table provided.

Sr. No.

Resource Provided

No. of PWDs

Micro financing for Persons with disabilities for their own business to help and provide them an opportunity in society where they could equally grow with dignity & support for other organizations working for Persons with disabilities in Sialkot.

1

Wheel Chairs

97

2

Try-Cycle

21

3

Artificial Limbs & braces

21

4

MP3s (Recording devices) + USB

25

5

White canes

14

6

washroom chairs

16

7

Medical Facilities

11

8

Sewing machines

8

9

walkers

6

10

Crutches

4

11

Home accessories

2

12

Hearing aid

1

13

Electric heater for a severely disable person

1

14

Assistive devices repairing

4

15

Elbow stick

3

Safia Foundation - Annual Report 2022

In Pakistan, education is a major issue among many others even for non-disable individuals, disable individuals case is exceptional. Keeping in view these barriers, SF helps individuals in terms of school enrollment, scholarships and other educational necessities to make education achievable and sustainable among this community. The target achieved so far under this goal has been shown in the table.

Sr. No.

Resource Provided

No. of PWDs

Mentioned resources were provided to Persons with disabilities to help and provide them an opportunity where they could equally grow academically with basic facilities and necessities.

1

Printing of Braille Books for Visually Impaired Students

21

2

Math Slates with  pages  for Visually Impaired Students

21

3

Scholarships for their Fee

5

Awareness and Advocacy is a basic need for the Psycho-social uplift of a society. SF has observed and addressed the need among disabled individuals due to their disability through certain awareness campaigns, counseling sessions and one-o-one meetings. SF has raised awareness among Persons with disabilities regarding their disability acceptance; better, self employed and independent life. The impact of these sessions has resulted as many individuals associated with SF are now having their own resources which are not only helping sustain their lives but they are actively leading or helping their families both with financial and social support.

Sr. No.

Resource Provided

No. of PWDs

Due to lack of awareness regarding disability acceptability and its counseling, below mentioned resources were provided to PWDs.

1

Awareness sessions regarding Persons with disabilities rights.

817

2

Counseling sessions

817

3

Out reach programs for meeting with persons with disabilities at their homes

23

Disabled people face discrimination and marginalization across the globe. They are affected by extreme poverty and due to this; they have limited livelihood opportunities. Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) overlooked the responsibility to include disabled people into their mainstream program. Microfinance is supposed to be for poverty reduction, empowerment of poor and vulnerable people but very few examples shows that microfinance served disabled people. To help persons with disabilities become financially stable, robust, and self-sufficient, Safia Foundation takes the initiative of micro financing for persons with disabilities of Sialkot.

Sr. No.

Resource Provided

No. of PWDs

Micro financing for Persons with disabilities for their own business to help and provide them an opportunity in society where they could equally grow with dignity & support for other organizations working for Persons with disabilities in Sialkot

1

Micro Financing

5

2

Support for other Organizations

2

Disabled people face discrimination and marginalization across the globe. They are affected by extreme poverty and due to this; they have limited livelihood opportunities. Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) overlooked the responsibility to include disabled people into their mainstream program. Microfinance is supposed to be for poverty reduction, empowerment of poor and vulnerable people but very few examples shows that microfinance served disabled people. To help persons with disabilities become financially stable, robust, and self-sufficient, Safia Foundation takes the initiative of micro financing for persons with disabilities of Sialkot.

Sr. No.

Resource Provided

No. of PWDs

Micro financing for Persons with disabilities for their own business to help and provide them an opportunity in society where they could equally grow with dignity & support for other organizations working for Persons with disabilities in Sialkot

1

Micro Financing

5

2

Support for other Organizations

2

People with physical disabilities are more likely to face hunger than their non-physically disabled counterparts. With health care disabilities, limited resources options and poverty may be inevitable for many persons with disabilities. Safia foundation working to reduce hunger in persons with disabilities and provide them with the resources needed to persevere through their challenges and reach their goals.

Sr. No.

Resource Provided

No. of PWDs

Food packages and Eid Gifts  for the Persons with Disabilities who are under poverty line to to reduce the Hunger & Seasonal gift of Libas

1

Food Packages in Ramzan

423

2

Eid gifts & eidi (Eidu-ul-fitar Eid-ul- Azha)

150

3

Monthly Food Packages

8

4

Seasonal Gift of Libas

200

Challenges

The field or community based activities had shown various challenges all in terms of mobility, finance, human resource etc. These activities though have carried out successfully still; left a way with lessons learnt and challenges to be encountered in future.

Sr. No.

Challenges

Description

Way forward

1

 

Acceptance

 

One of the obstacles during field activities was acceptance of SF’s staff and their effort among community. Families of disabled individuals were not even welcoming at first to receive the help. Acceptance of having a disable person in families is no less than a trouble for them

One approach to eradicate this barrier is to raise awareness among PWD individuals and family members through highlighting the organization’s vision and mission. Seminars or campaigns would be one possible solution to it

2

 

Attitude Barrier

 

 

Due to unawareness and lack of understanding, attitude of community towards SF was another major hurdle. People found it awkward for a woman who is disable herself to initiate an organization with the idea to aware and empower people like her in society

Awareness raising and counseling is a possible solution to this problem

3

 

Financial Challenges

 

 

This was indeed another challenge in itself. Due to limited or less financial resources, many areas of interest have left untreated e.g. Awareness sessions, follow up visits, individual counseling programs, sustainability programs etc. This challenge has lead to certain other challenges

An increase in financial assistance would be helpful to meet all the targets that left untreated for more and better outcomes

4

 

Human Resource

 

 

Among many others, one of the major challenges SF has been facing is lack of human resource. Due to limited finances, recruitment of staff is hindered which is a major need of the organization. Various tasks had been influenced due to lack of human resource for assistance is tasks

An increase in financial assistance would be helpful to arrange and manage required human resource to achieve the desired target

5

 

Physical Accessibility

 

 

Due to lack of financial resources, physical accessibility to remote areas was a serious issue. Absence of vehicle along with absence of human resource had been a serious barrier in reaching the target population

More financial assistance would be helpful to eliminate all these barriers and to reach all lacking commodities related to low budget

Pervaiz Ahmed Khan

Patron in Chief

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Usman Ahmad Khan

Vice Chairman

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Adeela Shafqat

Finance Secretary

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Rana M. Khan

General Secretary

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Zillay Hussain

Joint Secretry

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Khalid Mehmood

Information Secretary

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