Pakistan’s vulnerability to disasters including earthquakes, floods, droughts, and internal displacement due to conflict, often leaves hundreds of thousands of affected people in need of emergency water and sanitation support. Sustainable access to water, sanitation and hygiene in health centers and schools also remains a challenge especially for girls and children’s who lack adequate facilities to manage their menstruation. The effects of climate change and rapid urbanization also contribute to challenge of improving access to safe water and sanitation.

Pakistan has a population of over 200 million making it the world‘s sixth most populous country while 65% of the population lives in rural areas. With these figures, the most important challenges in the public health sector of Pakistan is to end the water, sanitation and hygiene crisis and promote dignified lives, reduce preventable deaths, improve gender equality and provide inclusive and sustainable WASH services. Our rural program me intervening in school to provide water and sanitation facilities and impart hygiene education. In healthcare facilities, we are working with communities and management bodies to improve health services and outcomes.

As part of our mandate to leave no one behind, we are also working in the villages with communities to ensure at least basic sanitation for them to have better, healthier lives. Across all of projects, we work with local governments, institutional authorities, district administration and communities to build knowledge, capacity and motivation for locally owned and WASH solutions that are scalable and sustainable.