Tipu Foundation Pakistan a Rajanpur Based NGO

TIPU FOUNDATION PAKISTAN

Tolerance Integrity Professionalism Unity

At a glance:

Registration: Society Act, XXI of 1860

(Registration No.: RP/03-2006-2007 on 28-04-2007 in Rajanpur)

Board Of Governors: 09 Members

Individual Membership: 108 Members

Chairperson: Dr. Shumaila Shani

Staff strength: 22 (18 Males, 04 Females)

Area of Operation: Southern Punjab

Major Programmes: Agriclture & Rural development, Health & Population, Child & Youth Development, Environment & Energy.

Field/Area Offices: 04

NTN NO: 3358139-8

Auditors: Sheikh Mehboob Ahmed & Co.; Chartered

Accountants Multan

For More information and Donations:

Address: Post Box No.05, Arif Saeed Colony, Backside Municipal Park, Jampur District Rajanpur (Punjab), Pakistan.

Liaison Office: House No. 46, Street No. 7-C, F-10/3, Islamabad.

Tel: +92-604- 567005 Fax: +92-604-569005 Mobile: +92-333-6111792

E-Mail: tipufoundation@gmail.com and farhan_iqbal78@yahoo.com

Website: www.tipu.org.pk

Mission Statement:

“We create better socio-economic conditions for the remote areas of southern Punjab especially focusing women, children and youth, to developing sustainable livelihood assets, to fostering local development, to mitigating poverty, to improving health conditions, and to tackling environmental issues through empowerment process.”

Core Values:

Tolerance: We constantly believe tolerance as the foremost lesson to respect for all. We are committed to openness, caring and tolerant in carrying out development activities for the communities.

Integrity: Our consistence and excellence in reputation, is by virtue of our honesty and transparency in what we say and act; also having courage to accept the responsibility either by individual or by collective actions, and hence adhere to the highest humanitarian principles and best practices. TIPU’s team is to be accountable for the effectiveness of actions and to be open in our judgment and communications with others.

Professionalism: We work together in an organized way by putting best of the individual commitment and dedication to provide opportunities for growth and to give services in highly valued that not only within the organization but also to bring about real change among the communities. And also recognizing the innate dignity and worth of all target population and the value of diversity.

Unity: We affirm unity and dignity towards work, within organization, staff, participants, partners and also interacting with donors to achieve greater impact in the society.

Member of Other Networks / Organizations

Community Development Network (OPP)

South Punjab NGO forum

Population Association Of

Pakistan

Coalition for Education

Ministry of Youth Affairs; Govt. Of

Pakistan

Trust for Voluntary Organization

National Trust For Population Welfare(NATPOW)

Objectives:

· To improve the socioeconomic condition of the marginalized, underprivileged and underdeveloped rural community without any discrimination of cast, creed and gender; and to involve them in development activities from design to evaluation of the project or local scheme. To organize rural and urban communities for undertaking the human, institutional and physical development initiatives and involving in participatory approach through devoting awareness, consistency, tolerance, integrity, professionalism, unity and faith among its members and diffusing these core values to the target communities.

· To involve youth for local development and to ensure equal and equitable participation of women in the development activities and promote their socio economic empowerment as well. And also to work for the eradication of child labour, promotion of child rights and to engage in advocacy and networking for addressing such type of issues and to broaden the base of social justice in the society.

· To strive for providing basic health facilities to the neglected rural communities and also to spread reproductive health awareness among rural women. To take practical steps to reduce infant and maternity rate in the rural area and also to spread awareness about malnutrition of mother and child.

· To implement projects of sustainable water and energy consumption education; focusing how to utilize alternate energy resources and also its adoption at community level; and also promote awareness to drink safe clan water, and to take efforts for clean environment through low cost sanitation and solid waste management.

· To build active, sustainable and meaningful partnerships with individuals, community at large, government, NGOs, development agencies, donors and other stakeholders. And to develop the linkages with the government and collaborating national and international organizations for the sharing of the knowledge & experience and implementing projects for livelihoods, provision of social services and for sustainable development.

List of the Current Governing Board of Tipu Foundation Pakistan:

Name	Profession	Qualification	Age	Position in the organization
Name	Profession	Qualification	Age	Position in the organization
Dr. Shumaila Shani	Doctor	M.B.B.S; M.M.C.H	28	Chair Person
Muhammad Tariq	Social worker	B.A; PGD-IT	37	General Secretary
Ayaz Qamar	Private Service	M.Sc; PGD-IT	39	Information secretary
Faiz Ullah	Social Worker	Inter Commerce	46	Finance Secretary
Dr. Ujala Anjum	Doctor	M.B.B.S	27	Executive Member
Khalid Mehmood	Teacher	F.A	47	Executive Member
Sidra Saeed	Social Worker	B.A	22	Executive Member
Haji Muhammad Farooqi	Civil Engineer	B.Sc Engineering	34	Executive Member
Amir Ahmed Shaheen	Social Worker	F.A	66	Executive Member

Experience with current/past projects:

Project Title	Location of the Project	Name of Donor & Project Period	Thematic Sector
Munir Ahmed Khan Library	Jampur City	Arshad Munir Khan Donations	Education
Annual Best Teachers Award on Literacy Day	Distt. Rajanpur	District Government Rajanpur	Education
Rural Medical Camps	Tehsil jampur	District Population welfare & Tipu foundation Pakistan	Health
MCH Centre	TEhsil Jampur	SNL Foundation (USA)	Health
Community Empowerment Program	Tehsil jampur	OPP Karachi (PPAF Partner)	Poverty Alleviation
Institute of Information Technology, Jampur	Tehsil jampur	Sabro Brothers Donations	IT education
Youth Development Program	Distt. Rajanpur	Donations	Capacity Building
Women Resource centre	Tehsil jampur	Donations	Women Empowerment
Teacher Training program	Tehsil jampur	Sagtani-PEF	Training
Flood Relief	District Rajanpur	Muslim Global Relief + Tipu Foundation Pakistan	Emergency/Relief
Campaign Against Gender Violence	District Rajanpur	Unifem	Women Rights
To Reduce the spread of HIV & AIDS in District Rajanpur.	District Rajanpur	Punjab Aids Control Program	Health, Capacity Building

Origin:

Tipu Foundation is a southern Punjab based non-profit, non-governmental civil society organization working with neglected and marginalized communities and advocating their civic amenities. Located in Jampur District Rajanpur a farther most and backward district of the Punjab. TIPU Foundation

Pakistan

was founded in December 2005 by a group of highly professional in as a commitment for a social change. Initially the organization is funded through membership fees, voluntary contributions and non-governmental donations and primarily focuses on health, education and capacity building.

Now Tipu Foundation Pakistan has revolutionary expanded its work at the grass root level for the Community Development and Youth Empowerment. One of its primary goals is to raise awareness of the socio-economic uplift process, especially in these areas where the most essential amenities such as better health services, Income generating activities especially to women, and Gender equity & population welfare have been insufficient. And to assist women and other vulnerable sections of society in improving their conditions by safeguarding and promoting their rights and lawful entitlements enabling them to work collectively and seek solutions, to the problems they face, through different work plans in organizational manner.

Detail of Equipments:

Other Relevant Resources:

Particular of Items/Equipment

Qty

S. No	Particular of Items/Buildings/Facilities	Qty
01	Building	02
02	Air-Conditioned Conference hall	01
03	Multimedia Projector	01
04	Training Hall	01
05	Air-conditioned Computer Labs	02
06	Library	01
07	Public Address System	01

TIPU is a symbolic word that defines core values of our organization. It focuses on participatory development through emphasis upon developing tolerance, integrity, professionalism and unity among its members to represent a role model for social change in the remote areas of

Pakistan

. Therefore, TIPU is not only a name of our NGO but also the commitment and dedication of our members to diffuse these core values i.e. Tolerance, Integrity, Professionalism and Unity among target communities”

Multimedia Projector

Notebook

Fax Machine/Photocopier

Computers

Printers

Scanner

DVD

Air-conditioners

Refrigerator

Office Tables

Office Chairs

Conference Tables

Medical Equipments/Medicines

As Per Stock

Stationary/Crockery

As Per Stock

Library Books

As per Stock

Sewing Machines

Knitting Machine

Imported Sewing Machine

Tailoring Table

LAN Networking

Dice/ Racks/Other Furniture

Cupboard

Vehicles

Motor Bike

Digital & Handy Camera

Detail of Contact Person and Bank Accounts:

Name: Sabeeqa Usman Malik

Mobile No: 0333-6111792,0333-4913718

E-Mail: farhan_iqbal78@yahoo.com

TIPU’s Approach To Solving Community Problems

TIPU pursue the following structure to solving any of the problems:

Þ Gather information on the issue.

Þ What exactly is the problem?

Þ What is causing the problem?

Þ Who are the persons/organizations responsible (for e.g. it could be a particular department of the government/an industry)?

Þ What are the consequences going to be? Assess magnitude, quality and prevalence.

Þ What are the alternatives/possible solutions?

Þ How much would they cost? Is it better to invest the money in other projects?

Þ Talk to people in the community to hear different views that will enable a holistic view of the issue.

Þ Talk to people who are in-charge and hear their side of the issue. Tell them about the problems that you see.

Þ You may be able to work towards solving problems together if you do not see yourself as hostile parties.

Þ Connect with people to increase awareness of the problem.

Þ Ask older, influential or respected people in the community to address public gatherings.

Þ Use the media (newspapers and the internet) to generate interest, communicate the facts and discuss options.

Þ Write different options to solve the peculiar problem and widely circulate to the concerned for choosing the best option and also made request for necessary funding against the best option to be implemented.

Þ Include people from diverse backgrounds, so that your organization is not linked with any particular political party or religious sect.

Þ For fundraising purposes, let people know why funds are needed and how they will be used. Transparent and detailed accounts are imperative to build trust.

Þ Link up with other Government, INGOs/CBOs to maximize the effect of the effort.

Our Team

At the top of the organization is the Board of Governors (all volunteers) which is the policy making & advisory body and is headed by Chairperson of the board; whose role is to coordinate management of the organization and the board, also have additional responsibility as a spokesperson of the organization. At the second level is the management of the organization; headed by the Chief Executive Officer, who is responsible to all activities of the organization as per mandate of the organization and also is responsible in the supervision of the daily management routine of the organization. The staff team is responsible for day to day implementation/operation of the organization.

Organization’s Chart:

TFP Projects and Event History:

S. No	Projects/ Events	Objective	Status	Date	Remarks/description
1	Medical camps	To provide health facility to poor/rural community	Running	One camp in a month since 2007	District D.G.Khan and Rajanpur having a large area about 24,340 sq. Km including a long belt of tribal area; but limited Health services are available in big towns only. On mapping of the total services in the District; include two DHQ hospital, three THQ hospitals and thirty five RHCs/BHUs to cover the 3.12 Million populations. And also annual growth rate in both districts are the highest rate in Punjab province i.e. 3.27%. In the context of this reality, Tipu Foundation Pakistan has regularly organizing Free Medical camps especially in the rural areas where there is no health facility available in nearby. Different special purposes as well as general medical camps are arranged like reproductive health/family planning camps, maternal and child health camps. Director Health/TFP; Dr. Shumaila Shani has been coordinating all these camps for the last two years and hence very popular in the rural community. District Government, Health department, Marie Stopes Society and Population welfare Department have supported these camps at different times.
2	Micro Credit Program	Micro credit loan/entrepreneurship Training	Running	June, 2008	Micro credit loan facility has been provided to the community at the lowest possible service charges; so that they could be able to increase their income and also get trained about basic skills of entrepreneurship to deal their business in better way. Currently more than 2000 are active borrowers in livestock, agriculture and enterprise loaning facility. This program is supported by OPP- Karachi and also financial assistance of PPAF.
3	Institute of Information Technology	To impart I.T and Technical Education to both males & females	Running	Since July, 2007	The purpose of the project is to provide income generating skills to enable the community to be useful citizen getting proper jobs in the revolutionized I.T sector. Also it is worth mentioned this is the only one registered institute of this type (Both public and private sector) providing technical education in this area. Offering Diplomas and short courses in I.T and other technical courses; Short computer courses Mobile Repairing Course Electrical Trade Related Courses Mechanical Trade Related Courses
4	Munir Ahmed Khan Memorial Library	To Promote the interest of people in book reading	Running	Since April,2007	There is always a need to make books available to masses; due to expansion of Jampur city, Munir Ahmed memrial library has been setup in the center of city to revive the dying out habit of reading and to promote the interest of people in reading books.
5	Women Resource Center	To facilitate and educate women in playing active role in all fields	Running	Since May, 2007	The purpose of the project is to facilitate sustainable development, socio-ecological justice and equity in the society by empowering women through education, skill development, awareness raising, rights-based advocacy and capacity building while believing in the women’s advancement as prerequisite of social, political and economic development.
6	Health & Hygiene Campaign	To increase awareness about health and hygiene	Running	July, 2008	On 18th July, 2008 a public forum was conducted at Municipal Park Jampur to attract and raise awareness to the general people about Health and Hygiene concern issues in daily life. And followed by pasting 100 sheets, painted about health and hygiene advices, at main location of the city.
7	Teacher Training Program	Capacity Building of Teachers	Running	2008	With coloration of Sangtani welfare organization and Punjab Education Foundation, 12 such trainings have been completed with a batch of 40 teachers of private schools each in one session.
8	Tehsil Development Council	To gather information and exploring problems at the grass root level	Running	Sep. 2008	With a mission to work together and to prosper the whole Tehsil Jampur; a network having nomination from all union councils of the Tehsil Jampur including Secretary of each union council as an un-officio member of this network. Under this network, people of all stakeholders gathered and discuss their social problems and Tipu Foundation Pakistan facilitate to solve their local problems on self help basis and other issues referred to concerned Government agencies with proper proposing the scheme. And also plan to make linkages to Internal Organizations to come forward to implement development projects in this deprived area.
9	A walk held on Labour day	Awareness on Labour Day	Done	1st May, 2010	Revivify the labour rights in memorizing the international labour day.
10	International Literacy Day	To educate the community to send their children to schools	Done	8^th Sept., 2010	A seminar titled “education for all” and followed by literacy walk was arranged on that day emphasising the importance of Literacy and to educate the people to send their children to schools and ultimately aiming to increase the Literary rate in District Rajanpur having lowest ratio in Punjab i.e. only 20%. More than 500 both male & female participants attended this event; District Coordination Officer/Rajanpur lead this walk; others include EDO/Education, Edo/Literacy, DGM/NCHD, civil society organizations, parents, students and citizens of Jampur.
11	MCH Centre	To reduce IMR and MMR rate in Tehsil Jampur	Running	July, 2009	A MCH centre has been established at Union Council Basti Randan, Tehsil Jampur equipped with all facilities of ante natal, natal and post natal complications. There is no health facility either in public sector or private clinic available in this union council; so it is real need to help poor community at their doorstep facility.
12	Flood Relief In District Rajanpur	To help the flood affected people	Running	August, 2008	Heavy monsoon rains in the mountaintops has caused hill torrents leading to the flood situation in District Rajanpur and approximately 80% of the population affected. Our team timely rushed to help the affected people for rescue as well as arranged medical camps; where more than 3000 patients were treated with free medicines and also distributed 500 bags of food items.
13	Wheat Growing Campaign	To advocate farmers to grow Wheat in the current season	Running	Oct. 2010	With scenario of shortage of wheat in the country, Tipu Foundation Pakistan is in campaign to grow more wheat in Distt. Rajanpur. District Coordination Officer and District Officer Social welfare appreciated this campaign and now they all are facilitating with active participation in our programs
14	A Walk held on HIV & AIDS Day	To increase awareness on HIV/AID and its prevention	Done	1^st Dec., 2010	More than 300 people participated and 6 speeches were made about the facts of HIV & AIDS and its preventions. Dr. Shumaila Shani; Chairperson Tipu Foundation briefly elaborate the reasons of increasing alarming figures of HIV & AIDS affected people in Pakistan and also discuss preventions as well as stigma associated with this disease.
15	A Seminar held on World TB day	To increase awareness on TB disease and prevention	Done	23 March2010	More than 150 people participated in this seminar. Dr. Nadeem Abbas delivered a comprehensive lecture on TB DOT programme. Others including President Bar, President PMA; Jampur, Chairman Al-Asar Development organization and health professionals attended this event.
16	16 Days Activism Campaign against Gender Violence	To raise awareness on Violence against Women and to reduce the prevalence of HIV & AIDS amongst women.	Done	25 November, 2009 to 10 December, 2009	16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign to honoring groups and individuals who have committed to bring VAW to the forefront of global attention, to encouraging everyone in their various capacities to take action to end VAW, and to demanding accountability for all of the promises made to eliminate VAW. The 16 Days Campaign has been an opportunity for our Organization to call for the elimination of all forms of violence against women by: Highlighting the nature and prevalence of violence against women& Raising awareness of violence against women as a human rights issue.
17.	Flood Relief -2010	Different interventions	Running	2010	Covering Health, Wash, Shelter & NFI and Livelihood activities; Cluster wise response is annexed separately.

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