Open Report - RAHMA Islamic Relief

Brief Profile
Name:
RAHMA Islamic Relief
Mailing Address:
314 – Poonch House Complex, Adamjee Road, Saddar,
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Phone Numbers:
+92(51)5513117, +92(300)5553629
Fax:
+92(51)5513017
Email:
mail@rahmapk.org
Website:
www.rahmapk.org
Official Page:
www.facebook.com/rahmapk
Key Contact person:
Mr. Zulqarnain Ansari, Sr. Programme Manager
Type of organization:
Registered national Non-Government Organization (NGO)
Last Edited:
11 September 2014
Introduction
RAHMA Islamic Relief registered on August 31, 2009 as a nonprofit, nongovernmental entity under The
Trust Act, 1882. RIR is a national-level NGO in Pakistan, inspired by the Islamic charity principles and
working for improving lives of the people irrespective of their gender, caste, color, religion or political
views.
The massive earthquake of October 2005 that hit Pakistan’s north was the element that brought
together the group of people who today govern RAHMA. Initially RAHMA worked as a team of
volunteers on various relief and small-scale development activities funded by Pakistani Diaspora
community in Norway and other developed countries.
Disaster relief, rescue and recovery have always been a top priority at RAHMA since 2005. RAHMA staffs
and volunteers are always ready to help people struck by natural or man-made disasters anywhere in
Pakistan. RAHMA has provided relief support to people affected by 2005 earthquake, the floods of 2010,
2012 and 2013 and the IDPs crisis of Malakand in 2009 and North Waziristan Agency in 2014.
In the development sector, RAHMA has experienced rapid growth in the healthcare sector particularly
with development of a “sustainable basic healthcare model” for rural and underserved areas. Upon this
health model, RAHMA has established health centers in district Kotli (AJK) and district Rahim Yar Khan
(Punjab), which are proving quality services. RAHMA has also considerable expertise in the informal
basic education, livelihood development and water and sanitation areas.
Being an organization inspired by the Islamic charity concepts, RAHMA has integrated seasonal activities
like the Ramadan Iftaar-us-Saaim project and the Qurbani Project into its programmes on permanent
basis. These projects provide social protection to the most vulnerable and poor people during Ramadan
and Eid-ul-Azha each year respectively.
Vision
“We aspire to be a dynamic organization working towards creation of a just and caring society across
Pakistan.”
Mission
To improve the life quality of vulnerable people through sustainable development and ensure timely
humanitarian assistance in need, by:
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Reaching out to people with limited or no access to basic services, complementing, but not
substituting, the efforts of government and other providers.
Enabling rural people create services they need and giving them access to the opportunities by:
o Organizing them into viable social groups.
o Giving them a feeling of empowerment that reinforces the poverty reduction process.
o Convincing them that they can plan and act to improve their lives.
o Capacity building for use of resources to an optimal advantage.
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Geographic Focus
Being a national NGO, RAHMA has worked in all parts of Pakistan including Punjab, Sindh, KhyberPakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, while we have also provided
relief assistance to conflict-affected IDPs from FATA in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. We have a central office in
Rawalpindi and two Area Offices in district Kotli and district Rahim Yar Khan.
Priority Thematic Areas
RAHMA’s major areas of operations and the details of our projects in these areas are as follows:
Disaster Relief, Rescue and Recovery
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Rescue support and saving lives and assets of
people during emergencies, providing them
psychological support, first aid and ambulance
service
Food aid for affected communities in natural
and man-made disasters
Nutritional Support for children and women
affected by disasters
Provision of Non-Food Items including clothes,
blankets, water storage items and utensils.
Early recovery assistance including agricultural
support to small farmers, by provision of
seeds, fertilizers and agricultural inputs and
other interventions in water supply, sanitation,
shelter and healthcare
Healthcare
RAHMA strives to achieve sustainable improvements in
health conditions among geographically remote and
economically challenged groups, and to contribute to
the government’s efforts to achieve health related
MDGs. RAHMA’s focus in the health sector is on the
following areas:
 Primary Healthcare with focus on providing
quality diagnostic services, treatment and
raising awareness regarding health and
hygiene
 Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH)
 Medical camps, Mobile medical clinics in
geographically challenging areas
 Health and hygiene awareness raising,
especially in areas with an emergency situation
Education
Livelihood development
RAHMA has been working towards promoting basic
literacy among those who do not have access to
education and ensuring primary schooling for all boys
and girls, by:
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Setting-up or supporting schools in rural area
and urban slums,
 Sponsorships for orphan and vulnerable
children in rural and urban poor areas,
especially in urban slums
 Increasing mass literacy by establishing adult
literacy centers
RAHMA has been striving for reducing poverty among
rural and urban poor. In this regard, we believe in the
Chinese saying “If you give me a fish, I’ll eat today, but if
you teach me how to fish, I’ll be eating for the rest of
my life”. Our livelihood development projects work on:
 Enhancing self-employment through training in
employable skills
 Helping disaster-affected people in restoration
of livelihoods through support in the form of
agricultural inputs
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Social Protection (Seasonal Projects)
RAHMA believes that an equal access to safe drinking
water and proper sanitation is a basic human right.
Reduced access to safe drinking water results in
spreading of water-borne diseases, which greatly
jeopardize the quality of life of vulnerable people.
RAHMA has been providing water-storage vessels,
water-purifiers and safe drinking water to communities
RAHMA has been striving to help the poor and socially
vulnerable people, through various small acts of
kindness, according the principles of Islamic faith. In this
regard, there are two special Islamic occasions, upon
which we help the poor and socially excluded groups:
1. Providing one month’s food rations for poor
households at the beginning of the holy month
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affected by floods and the recent drought in Thar
desert. We have also helped communities in southern
Punjab and AJK through installation of hand-pumps and
electric pumps for water. After the 2013 drought in
Thar desert (Sindh), our teams have been working on
WASH project, during which, dozens of deep water
wells have been dug up, which not only provides safe
drinking water for the people of Thar and their cattle,
but will also save them from such catastrophic disasters
in future.
2.
of Ramadan, and
Distributing Qurbani meat among disasterstricken people, IDPs, refugees and destitute
poor on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha each
Islamic year
Apart from these regular seasonal projects, RAHMA also
provides small scholarships, financial aid and in-kind
support to needy people on a case by case basis,
whenever possible.
Major Projects
S.
No
Project Name
Major Activities
Donor
Approx.
Value (Rs.)
Location
Duration
Individual
Donor
0.5 Million
Rata
Amral,
Rawalpindi
Sept 11 –
ongoing
Norad
3 Million
UC Dhanwan,
Tehsil
and
District Kotli
2012-13
Self-Funded
12 million
UC
Khuiratta
and Seri, Tehsil
Khuiratta,
District Kotli
2014-15
Individual
2 Million
Gulpur Refugee
Camp
and
surrounding
areas, district
Kotli
2012-14
RIRF
PKR
34,235,000
2014-16
(24
months)
Qidwai
Welfare Trust,
PKR
Million
Junpoor town,
Tehsil
Liaquatpur,
District Rahim
Yar Khan
District
Tharparkar
Ongoing Projects
1.
Shahzada Begum
Memorial School
Project
2.
Rural
Primary
Healthcare Project
(RPHP), Dhanwan,
District Kotli
3.
Rural
Primary
Healthcare
Project, Khuiratta,
District Kotli
4
Vocational Skills
Enhancement of
200 women and
girls
from
Kashmiri Refugees
in district Kotli
5.
RAHMA Hospital,
Junpoor, District
Rahim Yar Khan
6.
Water
Wells
Project for people
Provision of primary
education to children
of
slums
in
Rawalpindi
Provision of basic
healthcare, maternal
health and awareness
among
rural
population of UC
Dhanwan, AJK
Provision of basic,
maternal health incl.
Labor Room and
awareness
among
rural population of
UC Khuiratta and UC
Seri, District Kotli, AJK
Vocational
skills
enhancement
in
cushion and Dressmaking of Refugee
women
and
adolescent girls in
district Kotli
Providing secondary
healthcare services to
people
in
Tehsil
Liaquatpur,
district
Rahim Yar Khan
District
Tharparkar
(Sindh)
3.6
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of Thar Desert
7.
Hand
Project
Pumps
District
Khan
Rahim
Yar
Yardemali
Turkey, RIRF,
Penny Appeal
and
individuals
Qidwai
Welfare Trust,
Yardemali
Turkey, RIRF,
Penny Appeal
and
individuals
(Sindh)
PKR 3 million
Tehsil
Liaquatpur,
District Rahim
Yar Khan
2014
Completed Projects
1
2
Construction
of
Hospital
at
Junpoor
town,
Tehsil Liaquatpur,
distirct Rahim yar
Khan
Construction
of
Hospital
at
Khuiratta town,
distirct Kotli, AJK
3.
Improvement of
Basic Healthcare
Services
4.
Model Sustainable
Rural
Primary
Healthcare Project
5.
Flood Response
Project
6.
Qurbani
2011
7.
Ramazan
Food
Distribution
among
Flood
Affectees
Project
To construct a small
hospital
with
secondary
health
facilities at Junpoor
Town
RIRF and local
community
PKR 30 million
(construction
only)
Junpoor town,
Tehsil
Liaquatpur,
District Rahim
Yar Khan
2013-14
To construct a small
hospital
with
secondary
health
facilities at Khuiratta
Town
Renovation of BHU in
Flood affected areas,
of district Rahim Yar
Khan, and provision
of healthcare services
for one year
Provision of basic
healthcare, maternal
health and awareness
among
rural
population
of
Khuiratta, AJK
Provision of Food and
Non-Food Items to
flood affected people
RIRF and local
community
PKR
Million
2013-14
RIRF
7 Million
Khuiratta town,
Tehsil
Khuiratta,
district
Kotli,
AJK
Tehsil
Liaquatpur,
District Rahim
Yar Khan
USAID
19 Million
UC
Khuiratta
and Seri, Tehsil
Khuiratta,
District Kotli
2012-13
Ministry
of
Foreign
Affairs,
Norway
through RIRF
RIRF
and
Individual
donors
72 Million
District
Nowshera
&
Rahim Yar Khan
2010-11
4 million
District
(Sindh)
District
(AJK)
Badin
and
Kotli
2011
RIRF
0.5 Million
Districts
Jaffarabad,
Naseerabad,
Ziarat
and
Pishin,
2011
Provision of Qurbani
meat
to
flood
affected people of
district Badin and
Kashmiri Refugees
Food
distribution
among flood affected
people of Balochistan
12.5
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2012
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Balochistan
8.
9.
10.
Science
Lab
Establishment in a
School
Sewing Machine
Distribution
to
Skilled
&
Deserving Women
Drinking
Water
Scheme through
Electric Motor
11.
Qurbani 2010
12.
Qurbani
Project
13
Primary School,
Technical Training
Institute
and
Industrial Home,
and
Primary
Healthcare Center
Agricultural
Support for small
farmers in floodaffected areas of
Badin, Sindh
Iftaar-us-Saim
Project 2012
14
15
16
2009
Qurbani 2012
Establishment
of
Science lab in a
school
Distribution of sewing
machines
among
deserving widows
Individual
Donors
N-A
Tehsil
Gujar
Khan, District
Rawalpindi
Tehsil
Khuiratta,
District Kotli
April,
2010
Individual
Donors
N-A
Provision of safe
drinking water to
rural population in
AJk
Distribution
of
Qurbani meat among
Kashmiri
refugees
and
Flood-affected
people in dist. Rahim
Yar Khan
Distribution
of
Qurbani meat among
Kashmiri
refugees
and IDPs of Swat and
Waziristan
Vocational training,
primary
education
and basic health
(integrated project)
Individual
Donors
N-A
Village Anary,
District
Rawalakot
2010
RIRF
3 Million
AJ&K
2010
RIRF
1.5 Million
AJK & Swat
2009
RIRF
PKR
million
Gharib Abad,
Rawalpindi
20092010
To
provide
cottonseed
and
fertilizer to small
farmers affected by
2011 flood
To
provide
food
packages
for
Ramazan to poor
refugee households in
AJ & K
To provide fresh
Qurbani meat to
flood-affected people
in district Rajanpur,
conflict-affected IDPs
in
Jalozai
Camp,
Nowshera
and
Kashmiri refugees in
district Kotli
RIRF
7 Million
District
Sindh
Badin,
2012
RIRF
1.5 Million
District Kotli, AJ
&K
2012
RIRF
and
individual
donors
PKR 54,58,220
District
Kotli,
(AJ & K), district
Rajanpur
(Punjab)
and
Jalozai
IDPs
Camp (KP)
Oct 2012
9.2
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RAHMA Responds to Crisis abroad
Although RAHMA Pakistan has a mandate to focus the areas within Pakistan, yet RAHMA is sensitive to
humanitarian crisis abroad and tends to provide emergency relief to affected people outside Pakistan,
with the support of local partner organizations. In 2011, RAHMA team visited Dadaab Refugee Camp in
Kenya and surrounding camps in Kenya and Somalia and provided relief assistance in the form of food
items, non-food items and Qurbani meat to camps which were accessible, keeping in view volatile
security situation.
Similarly, in response to the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar’s West Arakan state, RAHMA provided
emergency food support and Qurbani meat to internally displaced Rohingya minority people in
Myanmar and Rohingya refugees in south-eastern Bangladesh, with the help of local partner
organization. RAHMA also helped established a vocational training institute for Rohingya refugee youth
and local youth in Chittagong city that greatly helped improve their employable skills.
Governance Structure
The Board of Trustees (BoT) as a group has legal responsibility for the decision making, actions and
operation of the organization. The board consists of volunteers from different fields, who oversee
operations of RAHMA Islamic Relief on regular basis. BoT in supervision of the elected Chairman is
involved in overall governance of RAHMA Islamic Relief, as follows:
 Ensure legal and ethical integrity and maintain accountability;
 Determine the programme and geographic focus;
 Policy development and implementation in the area of governance, financial affairs, HR,
procurement etc;
 Resource Mobilization;
 Enhance organization’s public standing.
Board of Trustees consists of the following members:
Mr. Muhammad Saghir
Mr. Nisar Ahmad Sabir
Mr. Afzaal Ahmed
Mr. Umer Hayat khan
Mr. Shahid Mehmood
Ms. Momina Khan
Ms. Somiyya Akram
(Chairman)
(Vice Chairman)
(General Secretary)
(Finance Secretary)
(Member)
(Member)
(Member)
Human Resource
Staff at Head Office, Rawalpindi
Senior Programme Manager
Project Development Officer
Programme Officer
HR Officer
Admin Officers
1
1
1
1
2
Staff at Project Sites
Doctors (M/F)
Paramedics (M/F)
Social Mobilizers / Marketing Staff
Drivers / Ambulance Drivers
Administration Staff
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15
4
3
4
7
Finance Officers
Intern
Support Staff
2
1
3
Receptionist
Teaching / Training Staff
Support Staff
1
5
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Organogram
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