Projects

Education

Building coeducation schools in remote and inaccessible areas that do not have access to education. To create gender equality, SRI has made education for girls.

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Preventive Healthcare

SRI’s Preventive healthcare program concentrates on improving the health and nutrition of women and children who are at risk.

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Sustainable Environment

Provision of safe drinking water is a major problem, as many people must now travel across long distances in search of clean water.

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Economic Development

SRI started a VTCs for women to teach them skills that will help them become independent and earn a living with dignity.

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COVID-19 Relief

SRI conducts education awareness programs on COVID-19, including handing out flyers too many communities.

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Social Mobilization

Social mobilization is at the heart of SRI’s development model. By creating forums, we empower communities.

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

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