Fast Rural Development Program (FRDP)

Sobre nosotros

Fast Rural Development Program (FRDP) is a nonprofit and nongovernmental organization, working in the underprivileged areas of Sindh, Pakistan since 2007. The Program is aimed at facilitating the disadvantaged communities in a way that they could be empowered to secure their rights with command over the resources and capabilities to manage the process of sustainable development.

Objectives
• Provision of WASH facilities to most disadvantaged communities in its operational areas for improving their current health status along with health and hygiene education.
• Improve nutritional status of pregnant, neonatal, children and lactating women in the most marginalized and excluded areas of Sindh with special focus on the critical first 1000 days from a woman´s pregnancy to that child´s second birthday.
• Assist communities to wrestle with natural calamities being resilient to climate change and emergencies in order to bail out from intricacies of emergency.
• Render world class education incorporated with latest handy tools with ICT in all FRDP´s schools for reaching poorest of poor for developing their future all-encompassing character building and morality
• Strengthen Livelihood means and ways of communities to reduce their rooted poverty for their development and make them socio- economical self persistent and dependent.
• Promote human rights especially those of children, women, laborers, PWDs and indigenous communities for their social, political and economic empowerment.

Our Programs
• WASH: Provision of safe drinking water to drought affected communities of district Tharparkar through solar energy solutions; Small scale WASH interventions in That; Solar water well for Tharparkar
• Health & Nutrition: Study on root causes of malnutrition, food insecurity, livelihoods issues and WASH; Fodder assistance for livestock to HHs affected by drought in District Tharparkar; Fitrana distribution among poor people of Tharparkar
• Education (Formal, Non-formal & Technical): FRDP has already got/gotten upper hand in providing quality education to the less privileged children in the region by constructing schools with the help of Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) which fully equipped with international standards including ICT and SMB technology in order to bring world´s most advanced learning to poor children.
• Climate Change CBDRM & Emergency Response: FRDP has developed a coping mechanism for disaster prone communities to be trained and equipped for combating pre and post disaster affects. FRDP also has initiated community based disaster risk management program in its operational area where bottom line remains involvement of communities in resource mobilization and effectively manage themselves in times of emergencies.
• Livelihoods & Food Security: Networking against violence against women (NAVAW; To ensure sustainable livelihood of women farmers and livestock managers through building capacities in Taluka Kingri, District Khairpur; Distribution of food pack during Ramadan; Agriculture inputsupport to Farmer Field School (FFS); Connect home based workers with market
• Child and Women Rights Protection: Child education 7 schools opened at Jacobabad; Emergency preparedness and response, Academia pilot fund project on DRR
• Youth Development: Humanitarian Capacity Building (HCB)
• Mental Health and Development (MHD): FRDP initiated a community base mental health clinic services for people with mental illness and epilepsy for district Matiary with support of local Health Department Government of Sindh.

Muhammad Achar Bozdar is the Executive Officer of the Fast Rural Development Program (FRDP).

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