Introduction
Al-Mustafa Welfare society is a group of the well reputed NGOs of the country striving for community welfare and development at national level. These are registered under various registration laws including the Voluntary Social Welfare Agencies Registration and Control Ordinance, 1961, Societies Registration Act 1860 etc.
Mission Statement
To work for the progress and development of the common people focusing on health and capacity building through establishing institutions, community development center, vocational training centers, industrial homes and women self-employment schemes including creating an awareness of their civic and economic rights and responsibilities.
Vision
AMWS vision is to rebuild Pakistan as an ideological, progressive enlightened and welfare-oriented Islamic State as originally conceived by its creators so as to develop an educated and a balance Society in Pakistan based on Islamic values of moderation, peace, tolerance, mutual respect, equality and justice, honesty and transparency, and solidarity with the poor and marginalized people.
Organization
AMWS is an independent, broad based, non-profit, non-partisan and non-governmental community welfare organization, registered under Societies Registration Act XXI of 1960 with headquarters at Islamabad. It is operating in many urban and rural areas of Pakistan.
The main purpose of this organization is to bring productive and sustainable socio-economic changes in the society at grass-root level through community participation, human resource development focusing on health civic rights and responsibilities empowerment and mainstreaming of poor, vulnerable and most marginalized segment of society.
AMWS team comprises highly dedicated, self motivated, well educated, widely experienced and enlightened volunteers from within and outside the country who since its inception are actively involved in variety of community services and developmental activities in different fields.
Mandate
1. Provide relief from sickness and in particular to those effected by drought, flood and diseases by the provision of assistance and treatment including medicine.
2. Information dissemination and human resource development through training, seminars, workshops and conferences.
The AMWS is targeting through its following programs:
Social Services Program
Capacity Building Program
Knowledge Dissemination Program
Social Services Program
This is most important program of the AWMS. The main objectives of this program are:
1. To provide relief from sickness any where in the country.
2. To reach in the natural disasters affected areas for helping people.
3. To arrange medical camps for shelter, food and treatment.
4. To provide training and technical assistance to the needy groups and their workers for effective accomplishment of their targets within stipulated period.
5. To suggest appropriate social security measures for the most vulnerable and marginalized groups of society like women, children, senior citizens and religious service providers.
Knowledge Dissemination Program
This program focuses on knowledge sharing and dissemination. The main objectives of this program are:
1. Create an effective demand through among masses at all the level for a noble and meaningful life and take all necessary measures to meet this demand through advocacy, capacity building, public campaign and other intellectual endeavors etc.
2. Mainstreaming of individual religious service providers and institutes i.e. Mosques, Deeni Madrasas and Khanqah and reshape them as real centers of sustainable social reforms and constructive changes through capacity building, advocacy and community participation.
Capacity Building Program
Human resource development is carried out through organizing, trainings, seminars, workshop and conference. The main objectives of this program are:
1. To develop technical and managerial capacity of social workers and educational and welfare institution and other affiliated organizations.
2. To alleviate secretarial and communal violence through dialogue and positive mutual interaction and create harmony among different sections of society.
The main areas in which AMWS is interested are as follows:
Health:
Health Education
Mobile Health Unit
Special and Periodical Medical Camps
Blood Donation Camps
Specialists’ Consultancy Services
Ambulance Services
Environment:
Advocacy and awareness
Safe water supply
A forestation
Relief / Social Services:
Emergency Relief
Ramzan Food Gift Scheme
Scholarships and Books distribution to poor and needy students
Qurbani Project
Skill / Human Development:
Industrial Homes
Women Self-employment Scheme
Community Development Program
Vocational Training Project
Research & Development:
Baseline Surveys, Seminars/Group discussions
Publishing of research findings
Reports writing
Research based Policy recommendation.
Advocacy/Public Awareness
Seminars/Conferences
Meeting with Public Representatives
Liaison with Distt. Govts./Legislators
Publications of Articles, brochures, posters, media programs
Man to man contact at gross-root level