Helping Hands
This is a vision of our chairman Haji Taleh Mehdi, where we can assist poor students to achieve their full potential, by supporting remote government schools and madrasas, with material and financial support, so they can provide access to enhanced teaching and learning material.
Al-Ain continues to support number of initiatives at a small scale under the theme of helping hands. We go into remote areas of Pakistan, where other charities hardly reach. In these areas we find there are no formal schools, and people living in extreme poverty. These people have no means to come out the poverty loop. We hope our small contribution, may help few to come out this poverty loop.
May Allah(swt) الله سبحان و تعالىٰ accept our effort and our supporter donations. Reward everyone here and in the hereafter Jazakallah Khair - جزاك اللهُ خيراً
There are lots remote areas in Pakistan where people have no means to educate their children. The above photo is from one such village we visited in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK) and distributed books, and school bags. Many children in these area are well capable of achieving Higher Education, but with no formal Primary and Secondary Education, they usually end up as labourers for the rest of their lives and continue to struggle through their lives to support themselves and their families.

Support for Girls to have equal access to Information Technology (IT)





The government have the responsibility to provide good education to every member of the society. Unfortunately, in the most underdeveloped countries, education is not given adequate funding to formally support every member of the society. With this reason in mind, we are doing our bit, with limited funds, to lift some of these underprivileged children out poverty.
We also are actively engaged with political leadership, by inviting them to our welfare activities and to raise awareness at a government level to make good education FREE for all. It is a basic "human right" for every member of society.
We know that poverty has a devastating impact on children’s lives. It can lead to children missing out on basic education or underachieving at school. It is really a function every government to ensure each child is given an equal opportunity gain a decent primary and secondary education. In reality, most under-developing countries invest very little on education, lots of poor people are often left behind. They are not able to lift themselves out poverty. However, we are a small charity, but we continue provide some assistance, where possible, at a small scale.

Al-Ain funds Primary and Secondary Education of 100 Orphan Children in KPK

The Type of Support we Provide under the theme of Helping Hands.
We routinely identity poor children who are missing out on basic education, assist them with books, uniform, and sponsor their primary and secondary education. We have provided material and financial support to numerous schools allowing them to cater education for the street children. These children are from poor families and spend their whole day rummaging rubbish sites to earn money to support their family.
Supporting Schools with IT equipment
In this day and age information technology (IT) plays an essential role as a skill for both children in primary or secondary schools. Unfortunately, we still find lots of governments schools have little to no IT provisions, particularly in girls schools. We worked in conjunction with The Nottingham Trent University, who donated IT equipment to allow us to establish a number of IT Labs in a different parts of Pakistan. Some of these were in Government Girls High School and others were Madarsas (non-formal schools, supporting mostly orphan children) in a remote area of the KPK Province. These madrassas are carefully selected ensuring that they do not have any links with extremist organisations
Mentoring Teaching Staff on the use of IT
We have been working closely with a colleague in The Nottingham Trent University, who has provided lots of IT equipment for a number of IT Labs that we have set up, to guide us on introducing basic IT skills into the secondary school curriculum. Initially, a proposal was drafted, to provide mentoring by staff from the Faculty of Primary and Secondary at The Nottingham Trent University. Since we work in very remote areas, due to security concerns it was shelved. However, they have guided us in the process of mentoring and we were able to carry out the mentoring work and completed it successfully. We are so grateful to Director of IT Mr Ian Griffiths at The Nottingham Trent University, for providing the IT equipment and his assistance this project.
Supporting Girls to achieving their full potential
We are working closely with the KPK government, and have an MoU on Education to assist with collaboration work. Looking at establishing a formal link with The Nottingham Trent University and Swabi Women University in KPK. During the last visit of Speaker National Assembly Mr Asad Qaisar, he met with the senior staff at the Nottingham Trent University. The High education minister has been instructed to look into what collaboration work can be achieved as a joint venture.
Gifting Computers to a poor talented student studying at Higher Education to achieving their full potential.
We are trying our utmost to help a wide range of underprivileged people. Under our helping hands theme, we identify poor talented students who have made it to higher education and support them further with IT equipment so they achieve their potential fully.
Providing Essential Medical equipment to Local & District Hospital.
We have provided over £500K worth medical equipment to Local and district hospitals.
Swabi District Hospital.
Our biggest donation was £100K worth of X-Ray machines and related equipment to Swabi District Hospital.
Chakwal District Hospital
Al-Ain fully refurbished childrens ward at Chakwal District Hospital, providing 20 additional beds fro children. Previously, each bed was often occupied by 2 or even 3 children lying side-by-side. The close proximity of children to one another lead to the spread of various infections throughout the ward. Not only was this dangerous for the children themselves but also for the healthcare staff. This increase in bed capacity allowed patients to be admitted on their own bed.
Chakwal Prison Hospital,
We also assisted Chakwal Prison Hospital, which was so run-down. We provided a number of beds, an examining coach, an ECG machine - an important resource as prisoners often complained of chest pain and were subsequently neglected leading to a number of Heart Attack related deaths - and a number of other items to have a functional clinic. This has allowed doctors in the prison to accurately diagnose life threatening conditions such as heart attacks rapidly leading to a better quality of life.
Bhatti Gurjar Khan Clinic
Al-Ain has helped to establish a primary Health Clinic, in Dhok Gakhar Khan, Kaswal, Gujar Khan by donating essential medical equipment.
Numerous other medical items have been donated to individuals (Including wheelchairs etc.), and to wider medical practices, providing free primary care, similar to the Batti Gurjar Khan Clinic.


IT Lab opening at Sir Syed Institute of Learning and Motivation - Battagram KPK
Video - Opening of IT Lab in Batagram, KPK 16th August 2006








100 Orphaned Children Sponsored by Al-Ain
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