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Quarterly Report

Development Action for Mobilization and EmancipatioN

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October – December 2019

" زیادہ علم بھی سے میں طاقتورتلوار ملک اپنے کو علم لئے اس ہے کو بڑھائیں آاپ سکتا شکستکوئی دے نہیں "

( جناح علی محمد اعظم (قائد

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Abstract:DAMEN is a non-profit and non-governmental organization working to improve literacy rate by establishing home schools in different areas of Punjab. DAMEN operational areas are Lahore, Kasur, Sheikhupura and Nankana Sahib. Apart from running home schools,

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1. Abstract 3

2. Preview 4

3. Vision, Mission, Goal 5

4. Home School Education Program 6

5. Case Story (School Teacher) 7

6. Health Awareness Sessions 8

7. Training and Capacity Building 9

8. Women Social Organizations (WSO) 10

9. Case Story (WSO Member) 11

10. Networking and Linkages 12

DAMEN is also promoting health, environment and education by conducting awareness sessions in underprivileged communities of Pakistan.

This DAMEN Quarterly Report (October-December) describes all activities that were organized in this time period.

Activities that were performed by DAMEN management in this Quarter are as follows:

DAMEN has arranged events to celebrate important days on different topics that are as follows:i. World Teacher’s Day Area III (Sheikhupura)

ii. International Children Day Area V (Nankana)iii. Funfair Event Area IV (Kasur)

Fifteen Health Awareness Sessions has been organized in all active areas of DAMEN by signing LHVs & LHWs. The topics that were selected for these sessions were: Family Planning, Cleanliness & hygiene and Menstrual Problems.

Teacher’s trainings were organized in all operational areas of DAMEN. The purpose of these trainings is to improve personal capacity building of teachers so that they can strive in the competitive market.

Some of these projects are operational and some are closed. Operational projects will be concluded in next Quarter.

Nabila Roohi

Team LeaderSocial Sectornabila.roohi@damen-pk.org

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3,300+ Students Enrolled in 100 Home Schools

296 Females attended 15 Health awareness sessions

3,550 Women Attended 292 WSO Meetings Conducted by Social Organizers on Community Issues

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DAMEN visualizes “Development” as a process of capacity building of the people in order to empower them to solve their socio-economic problems through collective action and their own participation.

Mission of DAMEN is to make the people of marginalized communities understand the true notion of development and build their capacity, which would enable them to organize themselves into groups for collective action leading towards self-reliance and empowerment.

The long-term goal of DAMEN is of sustainable development through capacity building of the communities and makes them self-reliant in overcoming their problems through collective action.

Home School Education Program

The goal of DAMEN’s social sector programs is to organize activities in the fields of education and primary health, primarily by mobilizing women caught in the cycle of enduring poverty. Through its home school education program, DAMEN seeks to empower poverty riven females by enabling them to start a non-formal home school and provide primary education 5 to 14-year-old out-of-school children. DAMEN currently supports 100 such female-run home schools in Lahore, Sheikhupura, Kasur and Nankana Sahib, which provide primary education to around 3,300 plus children and thus keeps them off the streets and affords them a chance to educate, learn, and, hopefully, transition into productive citizens. Attached is the home school report for the last quarter, October - December 2019:

Home School Detail

Areas SO Name Boys Girls Total Students Total schoolsLahore - I Amna Imtiaz 177 198 375 13

Sakina Amir 188 228 416 14Sub Total 365 426 791 27

Lahore - II Nargis Rehman 247 248 498 15Sub Total 247 248 498 15

Sheikhupura - III Shabnam Batool 232 254 486 17Sub Total 232 254 486 17

Kasur - IV Nasrin Jamshaid 265 298 563 14Sadia Saeed 274 255 529 14Sub Total 539 553 1,092 28

Nankana Sahib - V Shabila Yaqoob 193 269 462 13Sub Total 193 269 462 13Grand Total 1,576 1,750 3,326 100

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CASE STORYHome School Teacher

Teacher: Muqadis Akram

Education: Matriculation

Marital Status: Married

Children: 2

My name is Muqadis Akram. I am married and have two children. My father is a land holder and my mother is housewife. After completing my matriculation from government school I got married. My husband works in a factory After getting married I started to teach in private school due to inflation and less resources After becoming mother it was very difficult to work, but I have to earn to make our ends meet. A woman from my society told me about DAMEN who support women like us to open a home school. I asked help from those women who linked me to DAMEN resource person. I opened a school with the support of DAMEN. I have few students in the start than with the passage of time my school progresses and helped me in raising some money for my family. Now, the income that generated from school is helping me to have a better life for me and my family. It’s my ambition to open a high school in near future.

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Health Awareness SessionsDAMEN is working to provide basic health opportunities for women and children in deprived communities of Punjab that includes Lahore, Sheikhupura, Kasur, and Nankana Sahib. In the past DAMEN was operating health centers and organizing medical camps in these active areas by hiring LHVs. These LHVs were providing basic health services to these communities at very low cost.

It is not allowed by Government of Pakistan that LHVs can run medical camps and health centers. DAMEN is complying rules and regulations passed by Government. So the contract of LHVs has been cancelled in July 2019. DAMEN is now signing LHVs & LHWs to conduct health awareness sessions to women and children in all active areas. The purpose of these sessions is to provide a platform to deprived communities where they can discuss their problems and get beneficial tips from professional LHVs without any consultation fees.

The following tables of DAMEN health awareness sessions on regular bases by Social Organizers during October - December 2019:

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Area 1 (District Lahore)So Name No of Health Awareness Session No of Participants

Sakina Amir 2 43Amna Imtiaz 1 23

Total 3 66 Area 2 (District Lahore)

Nargis Rehman 3 51Total 3 51

Area 3 (District Sheikhupura)Shabnam Batool 3 59

Total 3 59 Area 4 (District Kasur)

Nasrin Jamshed 2 45Sadia Saeed 1 25

Total 3 70 Area 5 (District Nankana )

Shabila Yaqoob 3 50Total 3 50

Grand Total 15 296

Training and Capacity BuildingEmpirical evidence suggests that capacity building plays an important role in the growth and expansion of communities and organizations. DAMEN therefore places a great deal of importance on the training and capacity building of its staff and the local community in which it carries out its operations.

Community Level

Community capacity building deals with supporting people to develop their skills and use them to raise awareness about social issues and consequently bring about positive change in society. DAMEN’s vision and mission are also based on this principle of self-empowerment and active social participation. Community capacity building is primarily achieved by holding regular Women Social Organization (WSO) meetings.

Institutional level

DAMEN also creates opportunities for its employees to grow and develop their skills, competencies and expertise so as to enable them to contribute to their self-development and the development of the community.

During the month of November 2019, on the topic of Multi Grade Teaching System training were conducted for DAMEN’s home school teachers in area 4.

Orientation of New Staff

Orientation sessions for newly hired staff were organized and gave a brief introduction of DAMEN and its policies and role. The orientation also briefed the new recruits about the code of conduct, social mobilization techniques and the policies and procedures followed by the social sector.

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Women Social Organizations (WSO)

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Each of the 100 DAMEN home schools supports an associated parental group called Women Social Organization (WSO) which comprises neighborhood women who gather on a regular basis to discuss community problems and engage with home school teachers, social organizers and the team leader to gain awareness about various issues dealing with education, health, environment and gender discrimination etc. Attached is the detailed list of our operational home schools awareness sessions together with the names of Social Organizers, assigned to supervise

WSO Meetings with Social OrganizersArea 1 (District Lahore)

SO Name No. of Members No. of MeetingsSakina Amir 410 41

Amna Imtiaz 380 38

Sub Total 790 79Area 2 (District Lahore)

Nargis Rehman 450 45

Sub Total 450 45Area 3 (District Sheikhupura)

Shabnam Batool 432 42

Sub Total 432 42Area 4 (District Kasur)

Nasreen Jamshed 699 42

Sadia Saeed 703 42

Sub Total 1,402 84Area 5 (District Nankana Sahib)

Shabila Arther 476 42

Sub Total 476 42

Grand Total 3,550 292

CASE STORYWSO Member

Name: Shamshad Begum

Marital Status: Widow

Children: 5

Profession: Clothes trading

My name is Shamshad Begum. I live in Manga Mandi. I am widow, having 5 children. My elder son is 20 years old. He works in a factory and earns up to 25,000 PKR. I used to be a maid in a house. My 2 small children studying in DAMEN home school. Now I buy clothes from Peshawar and trade in Lahore. In this way I earn 10,000 PKR to 15,000 PKR per month that supports our family to make our ends meet. I am very thankful to ALLAH for these opportunities.

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Networking and Linkages

DAMEN places great emphasis on building relationships with local and global actors to achieve its goals of poverty eradication and community development. In this regard a number of associations were established during this quarter to form linkages and networks with various institutions to generate mutually beneficial ties. Some of these are:

Ms. Nabila Roohi, Ms. Hira Jamil and Ms. Hajira Tahir attended National voter’s day on 5th December 2019 organized by Election Commission of Pakistan.

Mr. Salman attended a meeting organized by Joint Action Committee for people’s Rights (JAC) in Lahore Press club on 16th Dec 2019.

DAMEN celebrated the World Teachers Day on Tuesday 8th October, 2019.

DAMEN celebrated the International Children Day on Tuesday 26th November, 2019.

The highlights of the event were as follows:

Students of DAMEN Home School performed a milli naghma A theatrical performance was staged by the children of DAMEN’s Home School DAMEN’s home school teachers and WSO’s members were given performance prizes

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DAMEN Arrange a Fun Fair activity for Home Schools in Area IV on Tuesday 17th December 2019. The purpose of arranging funfair event was to encourage WSOs and teachers and to provide

opportunities to students so that they can participate in extracurricular activities

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