Introduction
Sindh Community Foundation (SCF)
was formed by some young and
committed human rights and
social workers of Hala and
Hyderabad in January 2001 for
improving the socio-economic
conditions of rural communities
and neglected segments of
society, specially youth and
women. It started working with
small level charity actions,
including holding free blood
grouping and medical camps and
slowly shifted to strategic
interventions towards
sustainable development. For
that purpose it mobilized local
communities on various issues at
village level, formed Community-
Based Groups and then
transferred the same into
Community-based Organizations.
SCF mobilized internal and
external physical, financial and
human resource to become an
active and efficient development
organization. SCF through its
inception period, striving for
poverty alleviation, restoration
of social activities in the
rural areas through mobilizing
human and physical resources,
adopting community participation
approach and gender development
cross cutting theme. SCF is
registered in Societies
act XX1, 1860 under the
registration number 5104 in 2007.
SCF is in special consultative
status with UNECOSOC
since 2015.
SCF is also certified with Pakistan
Center for Philanthropy -PCP.
SCF
Current Projects
The project Protect Girls
against Early Marriages through
Education Support Program
supported under
THERIGHTTOBEAGIRL by MUNDO
COOPERANTE.
The project is aimed to provide
educational opportunities to 50
adolescent girls (at risk of
early marriages to be dropped
out) to continue further
education from 8th grade to
matriculation through parents
realization and transportation
support. The project is being
implemented in 10 villages of
districts Tando Muhamamd Khan
District.
Progress:
50 girls are continuing their
education in different classes
of lower secondary schools
through monthly transpiration
support. They are attending
classes daily and their learning
score is enhanced their
confidence and interested to get
further education is increase
thus the risk of the child
marriages reduced by
sensitization realized by the
their parents /communities in
their villages.
The 50 girls who are receiving
transportation support are
providing coaching classes to
150 girls in all targeted areas,
each girls is coaching 3
illiterate girls, adolescent,
young women, who never went
schools in their family
neighbourhoods. This has not
only protected girls against
child marriages impact but also
increase female literacy level
in targeted 10 villages. The
learners of coaching facility
are now able to write and read
names and able to count digits.
10 community group have been
formed comprised on 10 male
female activities so altogether
100 community members are
engaged in promotion of girls
education and promotion of
awareness among their other
community members on worst
impact of child marriages and
awareness on the la restraint
child marriages in province. In
each village, 20 awareness and
sensitization sessions were
conducted separately on
importance of girls education
and on legal aspects of Sindh
Child Marriages Restraint Act
2013 and GBV which created
sensitization among the 300
communities, 30 to 35 in each
sessions which included young
women and adolescent girls and
boys too. These community
members of the groups are
advocates for the protection of
girls against GBV and child
marriages in specific. Concepts
of gender equality were
highlighted in the sessions. In
these sessions SCF social
mobilization staff focused on
the various form of the violence
against women.
   
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