Preventive Healthcare

Preventive Healthcare Program

Our Goals

  • Reduce infant mortality
  • Improve maternal health
  • Reduce incidents of major diseases such as Polio, Hepatitis and TB

Progress to date

  • Community health centar established in 2010
  • Covers nine villages with a population of 18,000
  • Compliance for vaccination has increased from 65% to 95%
  • Under-five mortality rate reduced to 40 deaths per 1,000 live births
  • Maternal mortality ratio reduced to zero deaths per 100,000 live births

Projects

Dr. Ambreen Haq

Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

Evaluaton of SRI’s Health Program by Dr. Ambreen Haq and Plan of Action:
Dr. Ambreen Haq’s Dissertation

SRI’s Preventive Healthcare makes a difference

SRI’s Preventive Healthcare Program serves nine villages in two Union Councils near Saidu Sharif, Swat. The Program covers 2,250 households with a combined population of 18,000 people.

SRI achieve healthcare goals by:

  • Monitoring pregnant and lactating mothers
  • Growth monitoring of children to detect malnutrition
  • Referring malnourished and underweight children to doctors
  • Vaccinating mothers and children to prevent major diseases
  • Conducting health and nutrition seminars to prevent malnutrition
  • Health camps and mother/child workshops

Healthcare Photo Gallery

Swat Relief Initiative is unique because we make every effort to ensure that our work is effective and follows the ideal concept of charity

DONATE

100% OF DONATIONS GO DIRECTLY TOWARD PROGRAMS FOR DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES. SRI’S BOARD MEMBERS PAY FOR ALL OVERHEAD COSTS FROM THEIR PERSONAL FUNDS.

Letter from the Founders

Dear Friends,

We have always felt a debt of gratitude to the social institutions under which we grew up: Pakistan in the 60’s.  Today, unfortunately, those institutions are but a pale semblance of what they used to be. We were privileged but came from families that, despite their station in society, gave and taught us to give of ourselves to those who were less privileged.

This background, and our subsequent achievements in life, put us in a position to help the most needy people in Pakistan.  We are most effective in Swat:  This is in the region we are from, this is where we best know the people and this is where the people know us well.

We started Swat Relief Initiative at a time when the people of Swat went through the first major trauma of three major disasters: the 2008 Taliban takeover, the ensuing 2009 war and the 2010 mega-floods.

The most vulnerable segments of Swati society are the women and children – they are our focus.  We bring the men along too, for they are key to helping develop a milieu in which women and children can grow into fully contributing members of society.

We have a holistic approach to social growth with programs in Social Mobilization, Health, Education, Economic Development and Sustainable Environment. While working in these areas of social development we partner, when necessary, with individuals and organizations that can supplement our expertise and impact.

Of course, we cannot do any of this without the help of your continuing generous contributions, which we continue to pledge will go directly to where they are needed the most: programs and projects on the ground that provide the greatest opportunity for less fortunate women and children to thrive.

Thanks,

Zebu and Arshad Jilani