Visionary Foundation Pakistan

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PakistanPakistan
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House No. N-500
Sector 4D
Surjani Town
Karachi
Post Code: 75850

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Company Description

We are a national organization called ‘Visionary Foundation Pakistan’ registered by Joint Stock Companies, Government of Sindh vide registration Number KAR No 0036 0f 2010-11 and PDMA (Provincial Disaster Management Authority) Pakistan. We are recognized by the British Council and rewarded with ‘Active Citizen of the Year 2009-10’ award on 19 January, 2010 at British Council Regional Symposium Youth in Action for Global Change and Social Action Project Award Ceremony at Islamabad. Due to our active participation in community development, we have the honor of being nominated by Youth Parliament of Pakistan and selected by South Asian Youth Committee to attend the ‘South Asian Youth Conference’ due to be held on 23-28 May, 2011 at Banglore, India.

Our mission is to work for the betterment of humanity. Our aim is to identify the areas which concern society and render services to our capacity.

Our objectives are to improve the awareness about healthcare, education and capacity-building for poverty alleviation through mobilization of our human resource. 


Our team is a true blend of youth and experience. While the human resource is mostly the young field workers and volunteers school/college students; however, our driving force is generated through doctors, engineers, lawyers and social workers. Few of our hallmarks are mentioned below:- 

(a) We are working with ‘Pakistan Association of Blinds’, and have translated 4 books in Braille. We have encouraged and facilitated 15 blinds to complete their matriculation to graduation from University of Karachi. We have carried-out number of awareness programs in support of Persons with Especial Needs. About 3000 people were educated and trained on the subject during 2009-2010 and 2010-11. Certification of which was rendered by Pakistan Association of Blinds. Workshops for the awareness to the drivers of public transport about blinds were also organized. The efforts were duly recognized by city government and appreciated by Mustafa Kamal, City Nazim Karachi, BBC Urdu, Dawn News Paper / Channel and Express Tribune. A web-based radio channel ‘Radio Vision Pakistan’ has also been launched on 27 Feb 2011 for capacity building of people with impaired vision. The channel is aimed at locating and providing the job market to the Persons with Especial Needs.

(b) We have identified an area called ‘Rehri Goth’, a suburb locality of Karachi; where people were suffering from water-borne diseases. With the help of qualified consultants/doctors/ laboratory specialists, we conducted a free clinic on 4 April , 2010, so as to carry-out an in-depth survey and get the insight of prevailing diseases, their causes and effects. To accomplish this, we rendered one time free medicines with the help of our local contacts / pharmaceutical companies. In pursuit of rendering continuous health services we are running a Clinic, six days a week, called ‘Vision Welfare Clinic’ and "Vision Mother and Child Welfare Health Care Center". 

(c) We remained active during ‘Flood Relief Operations’. We mobilized our human resource and collected the goods from local populace and handed-over to Pakistan Air force Base Faisal. The goods were transported through C-130 aircraft to the flood affected areas. Our services were duly recognized by the Base Commander. 

(d) We are the collaborating partner with City Institute of Image Management (CIM) under the umbrella of City District Government Karachi. Our focus areas are Women empowerment, Capacity building of Youth and Skill enhancement & professional development. 


(e) In view of the impressive services rendered by our NGO, City District Govt Karachi has agreed to our proposal of “Government Schools Reforms Programs” for identifying the rogue government schools and hand over to us for providing quality education to the poor. 



We plan to achieve our objectives by:- 

(a) Introducing an education system based on skill enhancement through focused practical training. Inculcate cause and reason in the minds of youngsters through observation and hands-on experience under the supervision of experts. 

(b) Improving the awareness about contagious diseases and be part of programs to improve health-care in our society. 

(c) Being the part of any program for capacity building and poverty alleviation. 



We have the capability and capacity to mobilize our human resource to achieve our laid down objectives. We believe in working with devotion, commitment and teamwork. 

We look forward to be implementing partner to make a difference in the lives of deserving people.

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