ACHIEVEMENTS

Our organization has successfully completed three years of services to the cause of bringing about a change in the lives of street children and the struggle is still on. A brief overview is being presented for your information, mainly characterized by events:

Dastak; Drop-in-Center (Day time shelter), A project of Azad Foundation for Street Living Children organized a walk to commemorate the International Human Rights Day on 9th December 2005

International Youth Jam 2005, organized at Pearl Continental Hotel at 7th – 10th August 2005. Participants from India, Bangladesh, Srilanka and Germany participated to highlight various problem related to youth and street children

With the collaboration of UNICEF conducted an “Adolescents’ Provincial and National Forums on HIV and AIDS Prevention & Care 2005” on 4th October, 2005 at Social Welfare Training Institute, Karachi.

A documentary named as “Street Souls” was launched on 1st August 2002

Established a Drop-in Center (Daytime Shelter ‘DASTAK’) for street children at Saddar Town, Karachi on November 2004.

Participated at Family Fun Fair, , with the collaboration of Community Development Department to mark the Universal Children’s Day at Safari Park on 20th November 2005

Azadi Carnival was organized on 12th August 2004

Azadi Carnival was organized on 12th August 2004

A poster campaign was designed as a mini thesis by the students of Visual Arts Department, University of Karachi; campaign and exhibition was organized and promoted by Azad Foundation at Park Towers, Clifton, Karachi from 1-3 January, 2004

Poster Painting Competition was jointly organized by Azad Foundation and PCCWD on 3rd February, 2005

Organized a walk on 31st March’2001 for highlighting the affect of solvent abuse on street children

Still photography exhibition was held from 25th to 27th june2001 at Frere Hall.

Member of Adolescent’s Provincial and National Forum on HIV and Aids prevention and care UNICEF

Training for sexual abuse and risk practices among street children for the street councilors of Azad Foundation

Participated at “Children and Young people Regional Workshop” on SA Regional Mid-Term Review of the “The Yokohama Global Commitment 2001”, organized by UNICEF, Save The Children and ECPAT 29th September to 1st October, 2004, Colombo, Srilanka

Three Days workshop with the collaboration of Aahung on Street Living Children based on sexual health, July 14-16, 2003

Juvenile Justice System workshop for street children 26th April 2003

Participated Two day workshop on building a National Knowledge base on Child Labor in Pakistan –ILO (Islamabad) on 30-31 January’2003

Organized workshop on Juvenile Justice with twenty-five street children at Karachi on 26th April’2003, with the collaboration of Amal.

We are the representative of Pakistan for Youth, Peace & Development Program of World Bank

Attended a pre-annual meeting organized by World Bank under the title “ Youth, Development & Peace “, on 15&16 September, 2003

An active member of Consortium for Street Children and participated in workshop “Promoting and Protecting the rights of Children in Juvenile Justice System” from 14-18th July, 2003, at London

Being an effective core formed by N.C.C.W.D we coordinate on various issues at government level