Health Oriented Preventive Education - HOPE

HOPE (Health Oriented Preventive Education ) is a NGO (non-governmental organization) based in Karachi, Pakistan working towards Community Development, comprising of professionals ( Doctors, Social workers, Educationists ) as well as grass-root workers.

The ultimate aim of HOPE is Community Development through self-sufficiency of the community. The members of HOPE are working side by side with community volunteers and organize them in Community Based Organizations ( CBO'S ). All activities in the community are planned into co-ordination with the CBO'S and implemented in the community through the CBO'S. Hence, the community becomes SELF- SUFFICIENT and the community development work is SUSTAINABLE.

HOPE is presently addressing the following issues in the community.

• Community Development and Organization into CBO'S.
• Community Motivation.
• Provision of Primary Health Care Services.
• Awareness raising in community through Literacy programmes.
• Income-generation activities.
• Environmental Sanitation.
• Promotion of Hygienic Health Practices.

Through Community Development and Community Organization active members of the community, both males and females, are organized into CBO'S ( Community Based Organizations ) The community work is implemented through the community volunteers. HOPE believes in providing a package of community development working together with grass-root CBOs. This includes provision of Primacy Health Care (prevention of diarrhoea, malnutrition, promotion of breast-feeding, vaccination, ante-natal care, family-planning, prevention of AIDs) as well as imparting awareness to the population through improvement of literacy status of children and women, income-generation activities as well as environmental sanitation and solid waste management.

HOPE is an NGO, working towards Community Development through community participation. HOPE believes not in giving but in sharing problems and solutions. The motto is SELF-SUFFICIENCY and SUSTAINABILITY.

Geographical Areas:

HOPE is working in the following areas of Pakistan:

URBAN/RURAL

• Ghaggar Phatak
• Drassano Channo
• Gadap
• Kathore

KATCHI-ABADIS

• Manzoor Colony
• Zia colony
• Bilal Colony
• Juma Himayati Goth
• Mujahid Colony
• Bhittaiabad

NORTHERN AREAS

• Muzaffarabad (AJK)
• Bagh (AJK)
• Mansehra
• Abbottabad

In Interior Sindh HOPE has a very strong network and is conducting activities in the following areas:

INTERIOR SINDH

• Dhabeji
• Mirpur Sakro
• Thatta

Trainings and workshops have been held in:

• Hyderabad
• Larkana
• Sukkur
• Mirpurkhas

Collaborative work has been working on in Tharparkar with collaboration of other NGOs.

The core workers of HOPE have 5-10 years of experience in community development work in major Katchi-abadis of Karachi.