Improving health and education
Pakistan
Integrated health and education for displaced communities
Community World Service Asia (CWSA)
Education and health services are lacking in Umerkot district in Pakistan, especially for girls and women. We work with our local partner Community World Service Asia to improve community well being through life changing health and education programs.
opening doors for girls through education
The Umerkot district is one of the worst drought-affected regions in Sindh province and many people are forced to migrate for work. Displacement is widespread and education and health services are lacking.
Girls especially are less likely to be in school and women and children lack access to vital child and maternal health services. In Pakistan, we partner with Community World Service Asia (CWSA) to improve health and education for communities experiencing or facing displacement through education and training and increased services.
CWSA provides meals in schools to help improve attendance and retention rates and educates the community on the importance of education for girls. Act for Peace is committed to backing local organisations and working alongside communities to shape programs with long term value together.
Safety in exile
“[It’s important to] put faces to these issues and stories…and to tell the stories of how the support that has been coming from Australia, has changed people’s lives. That must continue.”
~ CWSA
Community World Service Asia (CWSA)
organisation, based in the global South and implementing capacity enhancement initiatives across the globe.
CWSA aims to address factors that divide people by promoting inclusiveness, shared values, diversity, and interdependence. The organisation’s focus areas include Emergencies, Climate Action & Risk Reduction, Education, Health, Livelihoods, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), Equality, Inclusion & Participation (EIP) and Quality and Accountability (Q&A).
Act for Peace gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP).
“Now, parents want to educate both boys and girls, whereas earlier, they only preferred to educate boys. This is a positive change that has occurred.”
~ Anaya*
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