Year: 2016

The candle making project has ended, and the girls enjoyed a lot and had a meaningful learning experience during the course. The response about candle making course are very good. The girls said it would be helpful in their future. They responded with feedback question like they didn’t know about candles, how candles were made and decorated they only knew to use them in time of electricity outages, but through these classes they learned that candles are also use for decorating houses , events and giving them as gifts. It…

Poverty is the biggest obstacle in the socio-economic development of underprivileged families in Pakistan. The cultural norms in Pakistan put the burden of earning on the shoulders of males and women are bound to domestic duties. However the vital role of women in sharing the overall household responsibilities, including economic, is a historic fact. Keeping this in view FIORE opened up a community centre starting community based income generation workshops for women from underprivileged families in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The overall aim of these workshops is “empowerment through skill enhancement” through…

Rawalpindi, city, Punjab province, northern Pakistan. It was the Capital of Pakistan from 1959 to 1969. The city is 14 km away from the national capital Islamabad on the Potwar Plateau. Bazaar in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Trueblood786/Michelle Ahmad   Rawalpindi (“Village of Rawals”) occupies the site of an old village inhabited by the Rawals, a group of yogis. Sikhs settled in the area in 1765 and encouraged traders from elsewhere to move in as well. In 1849, the British occupied the Punjab and made Rawalpindi one of their main military outposts…