T h e I n f e w s

The super-flood and rainfall of two consecutive years — 2010-2011 — pushed already-backward Sindh decades back in terms of infrastructure de-velopment, agriculture, and means of livelihood. This gave birth to one of the horrible catastrophes of the present-day world.

A heads-up for the concerned philanthropists around the world, floods washed away people’s meager means of live-lihood as well. The need of the hour, right after the heavy rains of 2011, was to create income generation sources for the communities of the flood– and rains-affected areas.

In this view, exploiting wom-en’s skills in handicrafts in various forms could be the passcode to prosperity. Inherit-ing one of the great legacies of Indus Civilization, they possess

amazing skills in embroidery, Rilli and Topi making, stitching and, with a modern touch, mak-ing fancy items for interior designing.

Realizing the apt time for it, JORDAN stepped into the field and sensitized the Government of Sindh to mutually fund a project where women’s handi-crafts skills could be harnessed to achieve women empower-ment and, ultimately, financial prosperity for their families. JORDAN has established a stitching and embroidery cen-ter at Johi (District Dadu), which is the center-point for Kachho’s 1000s of villages, the area which has large number of skilled women.

The scheme is envisioned to make women work and produce handicrafts. The same would be auctioned at major cities like Karachi and Islamabad at the

international level. The generat-ed revenue’s major portion would be given to the working women.

Besides empowering women, the scheme is also changing lives of many families and helping them adjust for the loss they faced in the floods and rains.

JORDAN’s intervention in women empowerment program, with the

support of Govt. of Sindh, is envisioned to have a lasting impact.

Songwriter, author and speaker, Gloria Gaither said, “We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way” — such has been the inspiration which has been driving me and my team work harder and harder to see the ‘rainbow’ of welfare and prosperity of the common people.

JORDAN’s journey to becoming a now national level NGO is full of

commitments and hard work in the form of teamwork. The Infews,

Message from Executive Director

Johi Organization for Rural Development and Natural Disasters (JORDAN)

Issue

: May

2012

Women empowerment 1

Message from ED 1

Primary Healthcare Program

2

One-room Shelters Project

2

Inside this issue:

Snippets: JORDAN is busy making efforts for

livelihood-cum-food security initiatives for the flood-affected communities of District Umerkot & Mirpurkhas.

JORDAN have successfully signed agree-ment with EBR-Energy Pakistan for solar energy project with assistance of BHPBil-liton. The project would be implemented in the Community Health Clinics of Johi and Dadu, sponsored by BHPBilliton.

Around 1,600 patients were handled and 2 deliveries conducted by the healthcare services providing staff deployed by JORDAN at BHU Baledai, Taluka Mehar, Dadu.

JORDAN successfully completed the 1-year project being executed with the support of CARE International in Paki-stan. JORDAN achieved the set targets in due time.

Around 900 patients were treated and 300 TT vaccination dosages were admin-istrated to pregnant women in the month of May through Primary Healthcare Program sponsored by BHPBillion.

a monthly e-newsletter, is an initiative to keep you, our stake-holders, abreast of JORDAN’s activities. We will try to accom-modate summary of achieve-ments and progress of the pro-jects and activities in this dis-course.

How do you find it? Your feed-back will tell us.

Also, feel free to comment on JORDAN’s project and strategies we adopt to implement them.

Bakht Jamal Soomro (ED, JORDAN)

infews@jordan.org.pk

Women empowerment in focus...

This is the age of communication—communicating helps keep stay on the same wavelength. We believe in keep-ing our stakeholders posted! That’s why, JORDAN adopted Social Media for updating people about its activities through official Facebook Page at Facebook.com/JORDAN.Sindh long ago.

Now, here in your hands is the 1st issue of The Infews—the monthly e-newsletter of JORDAN. Your com-ments, suggestions, and feedback will help us improve. Please drop a word!

-Editor

From the editor:

Women (PLWs) in the 58 villag-es of UC Baledai. At present, 457 pregnant women have been given supplement of Zinc, Folic Acid and Ferrous Sulphate.

Among the project activities are rehabilitation of BHU Bali Shah and BHU Baledai and ‘outreach’ for provision of primary healthcare services to the re-mote areas, from where, access to the BHU is a difficult job. Providing primary healthcare services and paying follow-up visits is proving to be very appreciated o ground. In the month of May, 508 patients were checked up at their door-steps in 9 villages of Mehar.

services there. In the month of May, more than 1,500 patients were checked and 2 deliveries conducted successfully.

As part of the project, nutrition sprinkle distribution has also been started for the registered children (6-24 months) into 58 villages of the Union Council Baledai. Teams move into dif-ferent villages systematically to distribute the sprinkles, suc-ceeded by the follow-up visits; so far, around 120,000 sprin-kles have been distributed.

Also, nutritional support is also being provided to the regis-tered Pregnant & Lactating

Part of the ‘Disaster Response Program‘, the medical and par-amedical staff has been de-ployed at BHU Baledai (Tehsil Mehar, Dadu), who have been providing primary healthcare services to the community for 12 months now.

Due to the availability of the trained medical practitioner, deliveries are also being con-ducted at the unit – which has definitely made lives of the community living nearby easi-er. For coverage of population of about 16,000 individuals, staff comprising of a medical officer, LHV, dispenser and vaccinator are offering their

Ho

w J

OR

DA

N c

on

trols

op

erat

ion

s ac

ross

Sin

dh

:

Primary Healthcare Program

Disaster Response Program

www.jordan.org.pk contact@jordan.org.pk

JORDAN Primary Healthcare Program has been functioning in the remote areas of District Dadu. The purpose of this program is to provide primary healthcare services in the selected areas where government facilities are not available.

Besides taking care of their primary healthcare services since last 10 years,

through this program JORDAN has espe-cially been focusing on maternal, neona-

tal, and child health.

The essential EPI and Family Planning services have been provided to the mar-ginalized communities through this initiatives. The success and popularity of this program is, therefore, evident in the figures—which also show that we have earned the community’s trust by earnest service.

Figures show us that, at an estimate, 15,000 patients are provided medical assistance per year.

The prominent segments of the program are:

1. Health Education 2. Hygiene Promotion 3. EPI Program 4. Family Planning Program 5. TBAs’ Training Program 6. Community Health Workers

(CHWs) Training Program

This program is sponsored fully by BHPBilliton, an Australia-based oil ex-ploring company, which has its opera-tions in the same area.

Super-flood of the year 2010 was one of the most destructive disasters of Pakistan’s history. Sindh was the worst victim of the brutal floodwaters — District Dadu being one of the most affected areas of the province needed strong response from philanthropists, governmental and non-governmental organization and to recover.

Sindh had hardly adjusted for the damages caused to the houses, houses, infrastruc-ture, crops and livestock, the rains played havoc in the flowing year of 2011. The already devastated District Dadu needed more attention in terms of recovery and relief.

According to a report, the number of fully damaged households in District Dadu (4 Talukas) was 12422 (74%). “The percentage of fully damaged household in the 4 Talukas vary as the disaster caused by the flood also varied. The worst affected Taluka was Mehar with 79.8% percent fully damaged household in its effect-ed villages, followed by K N Shah (76%), Johi (71%) and Dadu (55%)”.

“Teams move to the remote areas and provide healthcare services to people at their doorsteps. The practice is being acclaimed by the community. 508 patients of 9 villages have benefitted so far.”

Page 2 T h e I n f e w s www.jordan.org.pk

Besides healthcare services, people needed shelter for themselves as much.

JORDAN with the support of United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) started a project to construct shelters for the families “who need it most”.

A total of 523 one-room shelters are to be constructed in 14 UCs of the district under this project. JORDAN is following all ap-proved and acceptable construction measures and standards. So far, 348 shelters have been constructed, sparing enough time for the remaining ones to be completed by or in June this year.

One-room Shelters Project