SOS Children's Villages
SOS Children's Villages Pakistan is a private social welfare organization providing orphans and abandoned children a home, good nurturing and a fair chance in life. a new and permanent home. The children remain in SOS care until they are able to lead independent lives.
The primary need of children deprived of their natural parents is to be placed in a situation which is as close as possible to a normal home.
SOS Children's Villages meet this need and provide them with security and loving care.
Kasur
Rural Support Program
The activities in the SOS Rural support program includes, community partnership in implementation objectives, micro enterprise, micro credit, education, human health, animal health, population control, supply of clean water and hygienic disposal of waste. SOS pays special attention to the equal involvement of, and benefit to, women in all the areas mentioned above.
The project area is situated in Kasur District, Punjab. Kasur has been identified as an impoverished area, desperately in need of rural uplift and support as a result of number of factors including: continuous flood devastation, unhygienic water supply resulting from the disposal of the polluted tannery waste, lack of medical and educational facilities, and the generally low income population.
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Education