Rural Aid Response to COVID-19

COVID-19 Response in Narowal, Sahiwal and Nankana Sahib Districts

key Activities

Rural Aid is working on the following activities:

A). Awareness Raising campaign about the prevention of Coronavirus and Rights Protection by development of IEC material (Copy attached). These materials disseminated to general public, youth volunteers, MC and DETF members, community members, CBOs, activists and TACS stakeholders through social media, print media/newspapers (copy attached) and WhatsApp massages on regularly basis from 18 March 2020. Continue reading “Rural Aid Response to COVID-19”

Ladies try to rescue our threatened forests, but timber mafia still active! By: Afia Salam, Member of IUCN CEC

NOTE: This article was written before the recent implementation of the ban.

I want to thank some lady Parliamentarians. Yes I am being gender biased by making a distinction here but deliberately so. Kudos to Senator Saeeda  Iqbal and MNA Maryam Aurangzeb for the spunk they have shown in getting the order of former PM, Raja Pervez Ashraf of removal of ban on timber movement from Gilgit-Baltistan reversed. Continue reading “Ladies try to rescue our threatened forests, but timber mafia still active! By: Afia Salam, Member of IUCN CEC”