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CHARITY BLOG
CHILDREN HELPED OFF STREETS OF PAKISTAN
The Azad Foundation provides help for homeless children in Pakistan
There are more than a million children living on the streets of Pakistan’s major cities. Tens of thousands of them in its largest city Karachi. A growing number of these children are being helped off the streets by the Azad Foundation, a non-governmental organisation.
The efforts of the Azad Foundation come as progress in helping Pakistan’s lost children is beginning to be realised. Last week in Karachi, about 1,500 lawyers signed a campaign for a Child Protection Bill. President of the Initiator Human Development Foundation (IHDF)
President of the Initiator Human Development Foundation (IHDF), Rana Asif Habib said: “The street children are the worst sufferers. They cannot go to the police station to register cases against the perpetrators since a guardian is needed which these children don’t have.
“Also, there are no shelter homes available for these children and therefore thousands of children are roaming aimlessly on the streets of the country, indulging in wrong doings,” Habib explained
One of the Azad Foundation’s most important policies is to have children that they have successfully integrated into society act as role models and help others to leave the streets.
Former Karachi street boy, Ali is one of several, who have been helped back on his feet by one of the UNICEF backed organisation’s child centres. Ali left his family because of physical abuse and arrived at an Azad Foundation child centre aged 14.
Now 18 years old, he works for the foundation, encouraging other street children to use its centres.
“When I go to the street to find children,” said Ali. “I talk to them and suggest that they come to the centre with me. I tell them they will find there a doctor and some education,” he told UNICEF. “I tell them my own story and show them that now I am living a good life,” said Ali. “I can understand the difficulties they have. Some are afraid or unsure of my intentions.”
“When I came to the centre, I was nothing,” Ali added. “I learned many things, to read and write and to do embroidery. Most important, I learned to help others who are living in the street. My dream is to become a motivator and a good human being.”
