Dear HOPE Friends,
Dr. Mubina Interviews 🎤 HOPE's Azad Kashmir 🏔️ MCHC 🏥 and Home School 🏫 Coordinators - Ms. Sanjeeda and Ms. Naila
During the HOPE Team's recent trip to the Northern Areas 🏔️, HOPE Pakistan Chairperson, Dr. Mubina interviewed HOPE's Azad Kashmir Maternal and Child 👩🏻🍼 Health Center Coordinator, Ms. Sanjeeda, as well as HOPE's Azad Kashmir Home School 🏫Coordinator, Ms. Naila.
The accompanying video 🎥 captures the conversation.
Main Takeaways:
🔶 HOPE's Azad Kashmir MCHCs 🏥 and Home Schools 🏫 are catering specifically to underserved communities that reside in the remote mountaintops of Azad Kashmir 🏔️. The poverty rates in these areas are quite high and HOPE is meeting basic needs in terms of healthcare 🩺 and education 🎓 for these disadvantaged communities.
🔶 Due to the remoteness of the regions, government-sponsored healthcare services for the poor are not within an accessible distance, and most often the quality of government services are sub-par. HOPE fills this gap by being the only non-governmental organization within the region which is providing quality services to economically struggling families.
🔶 Specifically with regards to healthcare 🩺, HOPE's MCHC's in the Azad Kashmir 🏔️ region (Langarpura, Chakhama, Chikaar, and Koona) are actively working to reduce the adversely high Maternal and Infant 👩🏻🍼Mortality rates in the AJK 🏔️ area. Our four AJK health facilities 🏥 provide free/nominal cost healthcare to a total of 80,000 mothers and children annually.
🔶 The remoteness and rough terrain 🏔️ along with political instability and harsh weather 🌨️ pose as a few of several barriers to education 🎓 that children in Azad Kashmir 🏔️ face. HOPE's Home School network has addressed these challenges to bring education to over 2,000 children living in these remote mountain 🏔️ regions.
We are extremely grateful ✨ to Ms. Sanjeeda and Ms. Naila for being impactful role models and trustworthy members of the communities we serve. The critical role our HOPE Field team plays in our efforts to bring about positive changes in disadvantaged and underserved regions cannot be overstated. The Field Team works closely with our beneficiaries to pave the way for dynamic change through concerted grassroots efforts.
🌹We are deeply grateful to all our supporters whose loyalty and dedication are the foundation for the tens of thousands of lives we have touched in Azad Kashmir 🏔️ as well as throughout Pakistan 🇵🇰.
Warm regards,
The HOPE UK 🇬🇧 🇵🇰, HOPE USA 🇺🇸 🇵🇰, and HOPE Pakistan 🇵🇰 Teams
*Instrumental background in accompanying video is accredited to Epic Orchestra's cover of Cascada's Everytime We Touch
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