GRDO, an organization that has been working for rescue and rehabilitation of bonded labourers in Sindh, after having rescued over 30000 slaves, now talks about their rehabilitation plans and calls for additional support.

Dear Friends
Greetings from Hyderabad Pakistan. As you are well aware that about 1.8 million people are in bonded labour in Sindh, most of them in agricultural sector. With the efforts of many rights based organizations over 30,000 thousands of them have secured their freedom. After liberated from this evil they have to settle in transit camps established on government lands. Though some organizations are running schools and health services in these camps but these are deprived of basic amenities like electricity, portable water, sewerage etc. They are living there without ownership rights so they are constantly under the threat of evacuation by government authorities.

To cope with this problem Green Rural Development Organization has purchased 30 acres of land in the vicinity of Hyderabad with the financial support of Action Aid Pakistan to build 500 homes for freed bonded labour which will be handed over to them on ownership rights. To build these homes we are collecting donations from individuals, organizations, groups and institutions.

In this regard a committee has been formed under the chairpersonship of Kaleem Shaikh. This committee has started its working and till writing of this mail we have collected donation for ten homes and have commitment for 25 more.

We hereby announce that it will be exclusively people’s project and we will be duty bound to share all of it’s affairs with every one. We hope that you will respond in this regard positively and will also communicate this appeal with your other contacts too and invite you to visit there. We have worked out the construction cost as follows:

Every single unit with one room, kitchen, bathroom, toilet, boundary wall and one tree in lawn will cost Pak Rs. 18,000, or US $ 300 or UK pound 169, or EURO 250.

For further information & quarries please contact
Kaleem Shaikh (+92-300-3057893) or
Ghulam Hussain Malokani (+92-300-3017088) or
Dr. Ghulam Hyder (+92-300-3448950, grdovsk@yahoo.com) or
Aslam Khwaja (+92-300-7030972, lathrolak@yahoo.com)

Regards
Aslam Khwaja

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