Support our Islamabad project
 | This is summer vacation
time in Islamabad for school going children but not for scavenger
children who in their ragged clothes, unwashed faces travel long
distances everyday to pick recyclable waste in their waste collection
bags from waste dumping points located in markets, residential areas as
well as hospitals. Their parents are unskilled, illiterate and live in
abject poverty. Parent’s poverty forces these kids into scavenging.
While other children of their age are going to school, these scavenger
children become earning hand of their poor families living in abject
poverty. We should appreciate the hard toil of these scavenger children
because they, unlike hundreds of beggar children found begging in
various markets and roads of Islamabad, are not begging but are earning
their living through hard means.
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Many of these children attended school at some point, but had to drop out due to financial reasons. Our aim is to not only include these scavengers, but also include children from very poor backgrounds who can only dream of education. This 5 week camp will focus on giving them as much basic maths knowledge as possible. We will provide free stationery for each child, for which we need your support.
It will cost us about £0.80 (per set) to give the following items to these poor children:
10 pencils, 2 erasers, 1 sharpener, 1 scale, 1 pen, 2 notebooks and handouts with study material.
How many children's stationery would you like to donate?
This donation will be processed by Paypal and will charge us a fee of £0.20 + 2.9% for processing each transaction. For example if you donate £2, we will receive £1.74 after deductions.