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Introduction
The Society for Safe
Environment & Welfare of Agrarians in
Pakistan (SSEWA-Pak) formerly the LSRDA was
founded in 1975 and is registered under Societies
Act of 1860 # 3316. SSEWA-Pak has the
distinction of being amongst the first
NGOs to be certified by ISO 9001-2000 in Pakistan.
We have acquired membership of
HAP (Humanitarian
Accountability Partnership),
PCP (Pakistan Centre for
Philanthropy)
and also applied for MICAH certification.
SSEWA-Pak has its established headquarters at
Rattanabad Mirpurkhas with field offices in
Pithoro (District Umerkot) and Roshanabad near
Naukot (District Mirpurkhas).
Presently SSEWA-Pak has a team of around 200
professional workers reaching out to more then 300
villages of the Lower Sindh region. The
geographical focus is on Districts
Mirpurkhas and Umerkot and limited interventions
in Districts Sanghar, Badin and Tandoalayar .
The
vision of the organisation is “Together for an
empowered community and peaceful environment in
Pakistan” and the mission of the organisation is
“Mobilizing communities for holistic empowerment
in Pakistan”.
SSEWA-Pak follows an integrated rural community
development programme. The major programme
areas of the organisation are human &
institutional development, capacity building,
education, human rights & advocacy, health &
water/sanitation, livelihood development,
agriculture & environment and emergency relief and
rehabilitation. Each programme has a
coordinator and a professional team with office
space to function smoothly.
Core Values:
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Human must protect and use natural resources
effectively.
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We respect and value all segments of society
without prejudice to customs, tribe, creed,
language, religion and ethnicity.
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We adhere to the norms of a society based on
democratic culture, where fundamental rights and
freedom can be fully realized for all.
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We believe in an open and participative
organizational culture based on accountability
to all our stakeholders.
Our Team continues
to serve rural communities with vigor and zeal. Gradual changes are taking place
within the community that SSEWA-Pak is working. Illiterate people are now able
to read and write, communities that did not own a house have their own piece of
land and house, people who drank dirty water have clean drinking water and these
changes give us inspiration and hope to work with deprived communities
we at SSEWA-Pak appreciate the generous contributions of our partners in
empowering rural marginalized communities of Pakistan. this continuous support
has made it possible for us to initiate different development programmes. its
encouraging that our partners are with us in the struggle to fight against
poverty, illiteracy, gender disparity, violation of human rights, and pollution
of our environment. we are happy to say that many lives have changed from misery
to prosperity due to our joint interventions. we pray that this joint struggle
would continue until a just and Peaceful society in in place.
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