Hashoo Foundation creating a socially cohesive and economically just society
Fewer examples may be quoted for a person or foundation focused and committed to helping the community that was left neglected or relatively left out of the main development stream.
Hashoo Foundation is correctly turning it round in and around developed areas of Gilgit- Baltistan, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Sindh, and Azad Jammu & Kashmir. The societies that do not acknowledge the silent hero never create history.
The Foundation:
Hashoo Foundation (HF) is a knowledge-based, and impact-oriented organization aimed at empowering communities by leveraging knowledge as capital for their socio-economic uplift. The Foundation is the primary implementing agency of Hashoo Group’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy which is aligned with the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Mr. Sadruddin Hashwani, Chairman Hashoo Group and Patron-in-Chief of Hashoo Foundation established the organization in 1988 as a Trust aimed at poverty alleviation through humanitarian and social sector strategies such as access to education, health/nutrition, and sustainable livelihoods.
Its time that we pay our gratitude to Hashoo Foundation for their great social services. Most appreciable are the Flagship initiatives such as the “Sustainable Methods and Resilient Technologies (SMaRT) program, Early Childhood Development and Scholarship Program”.
Above is the video made on the social work carried out by the Hashoo Foundation in Gilgit-Baltistan. The most improved area after the Hashoo Foundation social projects is Gilgit.
To mention some numbers that were helped by Hashoo Foundation in this endeavor are like more than 419,751 individuals have been provided access to quality health care, 127,202 youth have been trained in multiple skill development programs by Hashoo Hunar, 108,913 youth in urban and rural communities have been mobilized for climate action responsibilities, 13,157 women and men were trained and supported under Hashoo entrepreneurship program, 193,173 women and men benefitted from Hashoo Humanitarian program/ Hashoo Trust then 344,116 children were facilitated and provided access to quality education.
History:
The Hashwani family has a long-standing heritage of philanthropy dating back to the last six generations. HF follows in the legacy of its pioneer ancestor, known as Mukhi Hashoo (1820-1915), who was active in community service. Institutionalizing this tradition, the family established the Hashoo Foundation in 1988 under the chairmanship of Mr. Sadruddin Hashwani.
Subsequently, two further charities were set up. In 1994, Mrs. Noori Hashwani founded Umeed-e-Noor to provide comprehensive education, therapy, and boarding services to children with special needs.
In 1999, the family established Hope for the Oppressed and Powerless (HOAP) to provide social welfare, vocational and soft skills development, and education.
HOAP initially supported rehabilitation for Afghan refugees, and later expanded to work with the wider communities in Pakistan. In 2007 these three organizations merged as a unified Hashoo Foundation.
This fused foundation with a single vision, unified structure, and shared expertise and resources will allow generations of the family to increase the scope and impact of their philanthropic work. The family believes that they are well-positioned globally to link development needs with market solutions, and build on their connections and networks for communities to benefit more Caring for the marginalized fellow human beings has long been part of Hashwani family / Business Group’s ethics and value system.
Almost seven generations ago, the founding father Mukhi Hashoo espoused the concept of social responsibility, long before the modern notions of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
While carrying forward this philosophy, the current family & Group Head, Mr. Sadruddin Hashwani, formalized and institutionalized this belief by establishing the Hashoo Foundation in 1988. In his view, it was wise to combine social investment with modern knowledge and expertise to produce measurable results and impacts. Thus he created a modern, accountable, and impact-oriented institution, which is managed by a professional team, and governed by independent trustees.
Hashoo Foundation additionally sees an advanced, extra responsive governance as an overarching cause for the applications in loads of techniques, which ultimately contributes to girls’ and youngsters’ socio-monetary empowerment. There are convincing arguments for putting paintings on DRR and weather alternate under each the Social Protection and Economic Development pillars – a recognition that paintings on DRR, weather trade and version are important bridges among responding to humanitarian crises and in the long run assisting humans keep away from losing hard obtained income because of outside shocks.
An exemplary success project “Honey Bee Farming” changing the economic scene of the area.
Honey Bee Farming:
Female empowerment is the key driver of alternate in any society, and it is exactly why the Hashoo Foundation (HF) is setting so much emphasis on equitable get right of entry to great training for girls, specifically for those dwelling in rural poverty were maintaining a respectable living is tough. We are empowering women through Honey Bee Farming- “Plan Bee” program which turned into started in 2007.
Through this education and provision of beehives and manufacturing kits, we’re capable of start up a small scale business in the faraway regions of Gilgit-Baltistan, Mansehra, Chitral, and AJK. In order to complete the price chain, the Foundation additionally hyperlinks them to the neighborhood and countrywide markets to maximize their earnings. This is then invested, in their kids’ fitness and schooling and additionally again into their businesses for scaling-up and expansion.
Hashoo Foundation has efficiently trained over 1,116 girls in honey bee farming and has guided them set up 36 honey commercial enterprise businesses. Some of these companies have advanced their personal honey manufacturers and are operating as separate commercial enterprise entities. The relaxation of the honey is bought by Hashoo Foundation, then processed and packaged under its personal brand called ‘Mountain Honey’, that is advertised and distributed to chose shops across Pakistan, catering ordinarily to 5 famous person resorts.
Hashoo Foundation’s involvement in strengthening the complete fee chain cycle from production to distribution has allowed women beekeepers and their families to enjoy a lifestyle that they could not come up with the money for earlier than. The software has served as a sustainable social-business model which uses a multi-region technique and encourages ladies to grow to be impartial. Women that participated in the venture have long past directly to maintain key management positions in the nearby Honey Bee Associations. They now experience greater socially included in an in any other case male-dominated business enterprise. This surprisingly acclaimed intervention by HF has gained international awards along with the BBC World Challenge in 2008.
Social and Economic Drivers of the “Plan Bee”
Women had been the maximum marginalized individuals of the society, a male-dominated society
Literacy stage of the lady changed into very low
Community confirmed receptiveness and reputation
Flora and Fauna had been abundant to be had
Potential for girls to adopt this as a business enterprise (cottage industry)
Creating linkages amongst younger technique seekers and undertaking markets, nationally and internationally.
Hotel Management & Tourism Training and Diploma in ECD & Education are of the maximum sought-after schooling packages of the Hashoo Foundation. Hashoo Foundation initiated the Life Skills schooling software in 2006 to allow greater youthful Pakistani women and men to make the most of the possibility to shine upon their socio-professional skills. These trainings are provided by way of manner of the Foundation through its Human Development Resource Centers placed in Rawalpindi, Chitral, and Gilgit.
Career Planning & Job Placement Service
Since its inception, HF has been offering steering and help for younger human beings to grow career plans and hunt for jobs through building their employable capabilities. To similarly make more potent this component the Foundation restructured its Career Planning and Job Placement Services in 2010. HF Career Guidance & Job Placement Program now provides an opportunity for youth to increase their career and comfy employment in Pakistan and abroad. As a quit end result of this, you possibly can find HF graduates serving in exceptional hotels, eating places, hospitals, colleges, and NGOs in Pakistan and international over.
Career Planning & Job Placement Service enhances the Employability Skills of the Trainees by offering critical know-how and linking them with professional networks and employers.
Hashoo Foundation has been recently awarded a SWERA Certificate in recognition of the community services on the occasion of World NGO Day 2020 at NCRD Islamabad.
With their mission “To empower communities by leveraging knowledge as capital for their socio-economic uplift,” and their vision to create an ethical, equitable, inclusive society in which people live with dignity and have power over their own lives, they are sure to bring change in the country.
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