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WOMEN
THROUGH REVOLVING FUND
APPROACH
ANNUALREPORT
2013-14
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AAS FOUNDATION
ACRONYMS
VDP
VDB
PDI
CO
Community Organization
VDO
CHC
VSDC
VADC
VHC
VEC
VYC
LCA
CPI
PPI
KC
Kisan Council
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CONTENTS
1.
Chairmans Forward
2.
CEOs Message
3.
Who we are
3.1
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3.2
3.3
Running Program
3.4
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3.5
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4.
What we do?
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5.
Social Mobilization
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6.
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7.
VDP Model
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9.
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10.
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11.
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12.
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13.
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16.
Olive Plantation
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17.
Consulting Services
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19.
Financial Statement
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Chairmans Foreword
AAS Foundation by the Grace of Almighty Allah now holds a unique position in Integrated Rural
Development in a short span of time,
Its innovative modal has brought a considerable change in the lives of selected ultra poor
women
Who are now leading a respectable and financially stable life.
The Skill Development Program for illiterate poor rural girls and women has earned AAS
Foundation credible and long lasting respect.
BY continuation of program we have converted Training Centers to Stitching Units that has
provided an opportunity to the females of far flung areas to use the newly acquired skills for
respectable earning.
I am thankful to all our partners for their unprecedented support without which it would not
have been possible to complete this Gracious task in a befitting manner.
I congratulate complete AAS Foundation staff especially female staff in the field for their whole
hearted commitment and unflinching Dedication to successfully implement the program. I hope
and pray that AAS Foundation achieves many more laurels in future.
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CEOs Message
AAS Foundation is working in poverty stricken backward areas of Southern Punjab Pakistan
which has a typical feudal culture. There are few families who own major resources like big land
holdings.
The AAS foundation has taken up this hazardous task of Rural Development against all the odds
and has proved its metal by implementing various programs like Social Mobilization, Livelihood
Development, Community Physical Infrastructure, Local Institution Building, Clean Energy
Initiative, Education & Health Services, income generation through revolving assets, Islamic
Micro Financing, Forestry and Environmental Conservation.
Encouraged by the success of its modal AAS Foundation has expanded its programs by opening
a branch at Talagang , District Chakwal with partnership of Izhar Foundation which is a
likeminded organization.
AAS Foundation has also trained 500 poor illiterate women and girls of rural areas by
establishing 25 training centers in remote village Under Punjab Skill Development Fund (PSDF).
AAS Foundation went a step ahead and converted 10 training centers into Stitching Units,
thereby Provided an opportunity to use their newly acquired skills for better living. AAS
foundation is committed to improve the living conditions in these remote areas and empower
the women and destitute to avail equal opportunities. Not to forget, this is impossible without
the involvement of our dedicated staff members.
AAS FOUNDATION
WHO WE ARE?
History of Organization:
Pakistan is a developing country and rich in human and natural resources.
Pakistans economy is agriculture based having contribution of 21.6% towards
GDP and employees more than 50% of the civilian labor force (GOP) 2010. This
population is living in rural areas and works in fields without having basic
facilities, especially rural women are more marginalized and vulnerable.
Although, Government made different development plans and implemented
but poverty increased day by day because of improper planning, halfhearted
implementation, undemocratic governments and strong feudal systems.
The third sector development organizations play an important role in the
development of country and support governments in poverty alleviation. Many
volunteers and development activists at organizational or individual capacities
are struggling to change the lives of poor in urban and rural areas.
In 2004, a group of development activists formed an organization named as
AAS Foundation in District Bahawalnagar of the Southern Punjab and started
activities to solve the problems.
AAS Foundation was founded in 2004 under Societies Registration Act 1860. AAS
Foundation is first organization which implemented a unique and innovative
integrated rural development model in district Bahawalnagar, of the Southern
Punjab, Pakistan. The organizations programs are based on the belief that local
people are best suited to shape and sustain their own development. AAS
Foundations modal starts at grassroots level growth that is marked by extensive
villager involvement not only as beneficiaries, but also as planners, managers,
and leaders.
AAS FOUNDATION
Vision
A socially, economically, and politically sustainable peaceful society, where all
its citizens can use their potentials and avail opportunities on equal basis
MISSION
To organize the communities with a view to address their economical, social,
political and environmental issues and challenges, to build a better and
prosperous future
AAS FOUNDATION
OBJECTIVES
Social
Mobilization
and
awareness
rising,
tool
for
community
organization.
Awareness
campaigns
and
networking
to
save
environmental
contamination
CORE VALUES
We believe in:
Partners satisfaction
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Network Members:
Running program:
Social mobilization
Livelihood
Health and Education
Agriculture and livestock
Skill development and Capacity building
Environment protection
Renewable energy(Biogas &Solar energy)
Islamic microfinance
Community physical infrastructure
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Area Identification
Base Line Survey/Village Profile/Poverty Profile
Dialogues and Meetings
Building a common understanding
Forming the Community Organization (CO)/Village Development Organization (VDO)
and Local Council Associations (LCAs)
Training workshop of CO/VDO/LCA
Community Needs Assessment (CNA) and Preliminary Planning
Eye-opener Trip
Finalizing Village Development Plan
Submitting Development Plan
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GOVERNANCE
Legal Status
AAS FOUNDATION registered under Societies Registration Act 1860.
Governance
AAS FOUNDATION has a general body comprising of citizens from Sheikhupura and
Bahawalnagar districts and from other parts of Punjab province.
The general body elects a board of directors for three years and board elects from among
themselves a chairman and appoints executive director to manage the affairs of
organization.
AAS FOUNDATION has a leadership comprising of directors that guide the operations and
assist the board in policy making and implementation.
Sr
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Name
Position
Qualification
Occupation
Chairman
B.Sc
Development
Professional
General
Secretary/CEO
MA Political Science
Development
Expert
Member
Master in Public
Administration (MPA)
Agriculturist
Member
Master in Social
Sciences
Social Worker
Member
Graduation
Social worker
M.Sc Economics
Social Activist
Graduation
Social Worker
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Member
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MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
ORGANOGRAM OF AAS FOUNDATION
Governing Body
Board of Directors
CEO
Manager HR &Admen
Program Manager
Manager Finance
Manager ERD
Finance Officers
Training Coordinator
BM Manager
Accounts Officers
Social Organizers
Accounts Officer
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WHAT WE DO?
AAS FOUNDATION mainly addresses issues in the seven development areas under the following
Village Development Partnership (VDP) model:
The social mobilization unit of AAS FOUNDATION is the central place that focuses on working
with the poor and disadvantaged segment of the society especially women, small farmers,
youth and children. Social mobilization approach
follows a participatory process to raise awareness,
Progress as on June 30, 2014
mobilize and involve all key actors of local
communities and meaningful participation of women,
Total No. of Cos:
405
small farmers, youth and children to organize for
Total No. of VDOs:
205
collective action contributing towards the common
goal. The strategy addresses collective and individual
Total No. of LCAs:
31
needs of the community by developing the
partnerships with all stakeholders.
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The strategy follows the essentials of the community development focusing on social and
economic development, enhancing the capacities of local communities so that the communities
may be able to organize themselves, manage their resources and mitigate issues and become
self-reliant.
This indigenous strategy is based on research and lessons learnt from the previous working
experience with communities. It follows innovative approache during the course of community
mobilization process. The unit has gone through extensive training sessions and filed exercises
making its human resource well trained and capable of dealing with all kind of challenges in the
community.
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These will have President, Manager and Secretary besides the members
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Project Objectives:
The specific objectives of the project are:
Ultra Poor community who cannot afford to buy and manage buffaloes and cows, keep 3
young goat, 10 hen and 1 roaster and a plot of kitchen gardening with size of (10x20) feet in
order to meet their income and consumption needs.
In the start of 2012, the AAS FOUNDATION designed, and implemented an innovative program
to increase the agriculture and livestock assets of ultra poor households.
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The program is based on asset provisioning, creation and strengthening in three phases, against
a specific set of activities.
Project Beneficiaries
The project activities were carried out through proper planning to enable the beneficiary ultra
poor communities in a timely manner. As a result, distribution of goats, hens and kitchen
gardening (seeds) was done through transparent and merit based process. Detail of total direct
Beneficiaries ultra poor HHs of the project is as under:
District
Tehsil
UC
Covered
Direct
Beneficiaries
(Ultra Poor)
Indirect Beneficiaries
(Ultra Poor)
Female
Male
Female
Youth
Children
Total
Total
HHs
Bahawal
nagar
Bahawal
nagar
60
41
65
80
239
425
60
Chakwal
Talagang
75
110
100
125
190
525
75
Vehari
Vehari
25
15
26
42
92
175
25
13
160
166
191
247
521
1125
160
Total
Distribution of Project
Baneficiaries
Male
0%
Female
100%
Breeding of Goats
The organization mostly provided the goats (with 2nd pregnancy) to ultra poor households
for their sustainable development. In the context, 10 goats reared in June, 2012 and
provided 26 off springs (goat=15 male goat=11). This immediate response of goats in
breeding ultimately sustains the ultra poor households.
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Hatching of Hens
The organization provided 10 hens and 1 roaster (young) to each
ultra poor household to meet their livelihood on daily basis. 11
ultra poor women hatched the hens in May, 2012 and 96 poultry
birds both (hen and roaster) were hatched. Furthermore, they laid
about 4500 eggs in one month.
This immediate response of hens in eggs and hatching helped to
sustain the ultra poor households in a very short time.
Kitchen Gardening
The production of organic vegetables was ensured by the organization. No fertilizer or
pesticides were used, only the traditional fertilizers, animal waste (goat, hen) were used in the
kitchen gardening plots. In this way, the vegetables produced were pure organic and were sold
in urban market with better price.
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MARKET LINKAGES
Establish a Corner Stall with Name of MERI AMDEN
The organization has established corner stalls in three popular departmental stores in
Bahawalnagar to sell the livestock products of widows orphans, destitute and vulnerable
communities in urban market. The name of the stall is MERI AMDEN, the urban community
will purchase their products like (eggs, organic vegetables, chicken and meat) on better price.
Due to this model the target households get additional income through their own efforts and
hardwork.
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Graduating to a new life in a village Hussain Abad, UC Islam Pura, Tehsil & District
Bahawalnagar, Pakistan
Livelihood Revolving Assets project of Aas Foundation has changed the life of Zubaida Bibi a
mother of five children was married to Muhammad Mushtaq about 20 years ago. She started
her married life with him in Hussain Abad, a village near Bahawlanagar.Her husband died and
there was no source of income. She started working as maid for pay of Rs, 3000.00.
Through formation of CO/VDO, Zubaida Bibi was traced out as a most vulnerable widow in the
area. The president of CO/VDO included her name in a CO/VDO as a member with the
consensus of all members.
She was selected as one of the benificiary of Aas Foundation Revolving Assets Project. She had
a rich experience in livestock farming and in agriculture sector. The organization transferred her
3 goats, 11 hens and a small plot of kitchen gardening for 18 months. Zubaida Bibi proved very
hard working women to take care of the livestock and kitchen gardening plot. After 4 month
the three goats gave their first breed of 6 babies and in poultry sector, she has 18 poultry birds
from the hatching. Thus, her small house was full of livestock just after 4 month of the project.
She sold one egg daily for Rs. 15 in local market to meet her daily needs.
Zubaida Bibi now feels content and confident to run the livestock business independently. Her
monthly saving from eggs, goat milk and organic vegetables is Rs. 5,000 to 8,000 per month
after taking out all expenses
and in addition she has 13
livestock animal (goats) and
27 poultry birds. These
assets are making her
financially strong day by
day.
She is now fully confident to
give a bright future to her
children, who are now
going to a private school.
She is looking forward to a
happier and healthier life
ahead.
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Pakistan is developing country with a strong Agriculture base. Vegetables are not only
important part of our food; they are also more profitable as compared to other crops. Due to
increase in population and decrease in
cultivated area with every passing day, now it
has becomes necessary to increase the
production per acre with reduced expenses. AAS
FOUNDATION in collaboration with Solve Agri
Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited and Bunyad Foundation
has initiated this project in four districts of South
Punjab (Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, Lodhran
and Muzaffargarh) funded by Punjab Skill
Development Fund (PSDF).
This Programme
trainings project:
encompasses
following
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Training
Period
No of household trained
Tunnel Farming
6 months
Horticulture/flowery culture
3 month
Kitchen Gardening
4 months
Adult Literacy
4 months
Domestic tailoring
4 months
6 months
Poultry farming
2 months
Livestock farming
2 months
Dairy management
2 months
Regular
program
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SOLAR LANTERNS
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Making of participatory arrangement of drinking and irrigation water in rural nonirrigated areas
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Change the view of farmers to look agriculture & livestock as a business not only as the way
of living
To promote value addition in farmers agricultural & livestock production through grading
and packaging
To promote and increase the produce of vegetables & fruit picking, grading, packing and
packaging as per international standards and introduce them in international market
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processing, and marketing), lack of access to market information and some capacity building
issues, the farmers are still in poverty. The concept is to introduce methods for hygienic
supplies of fresh milk for the domestic markets as well as urban market under value chain
approach through KISAN COUNCIL for the sustainability of the farmers.
Goal:
Hygienic supply of fresh and pure milk in domestic as well as urban market under value chain
approach through KISAN COUNCIL for the financial sustainability of the small farmers
There are four following major parts of the project:
Milk outlet
Under the above mentioned approach, the farmer community will increase their income on
sustainable basis and general community will purchase the fresh and pure milk and meat at a
reasonable price. In this scenario, the livestock sector will improve in the region and there will
innovative value addition practices will adopt.
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Training
Household Participated
Livestock Management
Calf Rearing
Breeding
500 household
500 household
500 household
500 household
Heat stress
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500 household
500 household
500 household
500 household
500 household
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Islamic Microfinance is a development tool to involve communities in positive change and uplift
the community. Commercial Banks and MFIs are providing loans with high mark up rates. The
access of rural and semi urban poor is at minimum level because of difficult processes. Literacy
rate in rural areas is also low and people avoid time taking processes. Islamic Microfinance
institutions (IMFIs) were established to fill gaps and providing access to the poor to avail credit
opportunities with no interest for real development. AAS Foundation started Islamic
Microfinance Operations with the financial support of his board members; AAS Foundation is
providing Musharakah to small farmers and rural entrepreneurs for livestock, agriculture
development, and crop production and enterprise development.
AAS Foundation providing microfinance facility by developing different products based on the
community demands. These products are:
Products of Islamic Microfinance Program
Musharakah
Specific to microfinance program, AAS Foundation has provided the credit of Rs. 1.1 million to
110 beneficiaries. The Islamic Microfinance program is being executed in district Bahawalnagar.
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Among the major reason of the rural population deprivations, lower level of awareness and
consciousness stand at the top of the list. They have a very little access to useful knowledge and
information and they seldom find chances to share their problems, issues and experiences with
each other with a spirit to give them a permanent end. AAS FOUNDATION besides incorporating
other poverty reduction strategies focuses its prime attention on building capacities of the
poor, developing an appropriate institutional infrastructure at grass root level and building
networks at different levels.
Beneficiaries: 1308 Persons
Furthermore, the organization is empowering the
UC Delegates of LCAs with different trainings and
capacity building initiatives for sustainable
development at union council level. AAS
FOUNDATION has also disbursed grants of Rs. 7,500
with the coordination of DTCE for development
purposes at union council level.
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OLIVE PLANTATION:
Objective:
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CONSULTING SERVICES
AAS FOUNDATION professionals has been providing expertise and consulting services in the
following areas.
Field surveys, baseline and socio-economic surveys, health base line survey
Project Planning
Project Design
Project Management
TORs Development
Project Reviews
Policy Analysis
Advocacy
Institutional Development
Organizational Development
Change Management
Staff Development
Communication Strategy
Awareness Campaign
Feasibility Studies
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Bunyad Foundation
Mojaz Foundation
District coverage
03
Tehsil coverage
07
UCs coverage`
63
375
Total No of Branches
03
14,500
160
480
Total No. of Hens (10 Hens + 1 Roaster to each) to ultra poor community
1760
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160
27
605
500
160
11000
750
90
750
650
232,500
250,000
700
63
2000
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FINANCIAL
STATEMENTS
For the year ended
June 30, 2014
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