The problem in Balochistan is not just political or strategic – it is humanitarian. A vast majority of the people in the province in rural and peri-urban areas an in its Baloch-dominated central and southern regions – live below poverty line with next to no means of earning a livelihood. They have minimal access to education, health, roads, electricity and other means of communication. Most of them have never heard about a flush toilet, a sewerage disposal system and running tap water. Their ramshackle abodes are as basic as the temporary shelters in a badly run refugee camp and their belongings as nominal as those of any asset-less group of people in a war-ravaged country. It is a humanitarian crisis that can be resolved and all means deployed to reach the people- who through their indomitable courage, resilience, faith and determination have proved time and time again that how contributory they are towards any effort made to make their living conditions bearable. The people are involved, responsive and have an inbred sense of accepting responsibility for the betterment of their lives.
The Project aims to develop skills of 160 females through community based and managed skill enhancement program. The course is designed to raise understanding of participants for utilizing their skills to run home based livelihood supporting enterprises, by using new and creative designing of product range that create a niche for them in the market thus supplementing their income and improving their quality of life. The Project will identify centers that have the maximum potential of willing participant’s to ensure establishment of production centers and further development of their skills through provision of mechanized machines and renewed training events.
