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The AAS Foundation is registered as Non-Profit Corporation under Secretary States, USA (United States of America) exclusively for charities, education, health, women development and scientific purposes, for making of distribution to the organizations that qualify as exempt under Section 501 (c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code under the License # 102370831002 for the 13630 Sable Line Houston Texas, USA. The Same donations and charity funds are being legally utilized in Pakistan to support marginalized remote communities in Gilgit Baltistan to uplift the standards of living through different community based micro infrastructure initiatives.
The AAS Foundation is basically an Umbrella Organization consist of community-based organization representing all 10 Districts of Gilgit Baltistan to address poverty, Education, Health, gender discrimination & violence, early marriages issues, child laboring and child drug addictions.
Under the AAS Foundation donates different community-based organization i.e., Shaheed Malik Ashder Welfare Organization (SMAWO) in District Nagar, Quest for Hope in District Ghizer, AAS Welfare in District Diamer, Baidar in Baltistan region through donations, charity in infrastructure development, small housing schemes to ultra-poor’s, micro loaning, orphan support programs, poor students stipends, mother & child health initiatives and women development, enterprise & value chain of Agri-products. to provide coherent, long term development vision for the Gilgit Baltistan, especially to uplift the living standards of poor communities residing in very remote mountain and hilly areas.
Several recent studies have estimated that 40 to 50 percent of the total population lives below the poverty line. The cause of poverty in the region includes governance factors (e.g., the lack of strong pro poor policies) economic factors (e.g. the recent slowdown of tourism industry) and the property rights of the poor to crucial resources (such as land, water and forest) have also become increasingly restricted over time
Women constitute approximately 51 % of the total population. Their contribution to the region’s wellbeing, however remained undervalued and largely unseen, and their needs and aspirations often remained unrecognized. Despite the execution of many Government development initiatives over last two decades, there have been only poor improvements in the economic and social conditions of women
The population of the Gilgit Baltistan suffers from a wide range of health problems, including diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, Hepatitis, Carcinoma, shigellosis, amoebiasis and asthma. Thousands of people are affected by these diseases every year and travel to mega cities i.e. Islamabad, Lahore & Karachi bearing heavy financial costs for treatment.
AAS’s programmatic aim for the promotion of basic education is based on the belief that education is a fundamental solution to address poverty. AAS believes that promoting boys’ and girls’ education is a dire need of the society, since an educated society can only be able to fight poverty in a more effective way. In addition, there is also shortage of qualified Teachers and other allied technical staff in Educational Institutes
In Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan there is a low public investment in education, poor quality of delivery, poor infrastructure and lack of educational facilities has led to a system that is characterized by low enrolment, high student’s absenteeism, increased dropout rate, lack of schools and little or no engagement of the communities in the affairs of the schools. In addition, there are no separate toilets for male and female students a main hurdle for female education system
AAS major socio-economic surveys, such as the Socio-Economic Survey of the Gilgit Baltistan, have repeatedly highlighted core issues surrounding poverty. Despite significant reduction in the incidence of absolute poverty, most of the community, and sections of the population still live-in extreme poverty. AAS designed special initiatives with a focus on poor and extremely poor families in the Gilgit Baltistan, addressing the factors that lead to extreme poverty
AAS supports the poor communities of District Gilgit, Diamer, Ghizer, Shigar & Nagar in developing irrigation Channels, link roads, bridges, protective works, water supply schemes, and micro hydel plants. Initially, these projects will be implemented under the Public Private Partnership; however, it will soon become clear that infrastructure investments also create sustainable sources
AAS aims to demonstrate a unique model of Public-Private Partnership in WASH projects across the district with close coordination with Donors and Government Departments. These projects focused on restoring existing water facilities through increased access of target beneficiaries towards improved drinking water and sanitation services with better hygiene practices. Behavioral Change
The AAs has focused on entrepreneurship in the remote villages of Gilgit Baltistan and Kohistan in providing microloans to women and marginalized men to generate income through micro initiatives including tunnel farming, developing fruit orchards, street vendors, rickshaw drivers, weavers, and tailors, snowmakers, Barbershops, Small Business entities in every valley.
AAs aims to support gender inclusive income and employment generation opportunities in the livestock and horticulture sectors for 10 districts in Gilgit Baltistan by making improvements at all levels of the value chain. AAS Foundation focus on progress on breaking the poverty cycle by introducing different initiatives. There are many challenges to reach the most vulnerable, who often live in environments with poor infrastructure, low population density, and minimal economic opportunities
Help a child to achieve his dreams by donating a dollar to attend the school. AAS providing a life-line for thousands of the Gilgit Baltistan’s most vulnerable children through our orphan sponsorship scheme, which supports 3000 children in 10 Districts. Through the programme, vulnerable children and their families receive a regular allowance which provides for the child’s basic needs and enables them to go to school. to tackle poverty and suffering of remote poor people.
The AAS works for rehabilitation of communities to provide shelters, houses, tents and food items to the flood, and rock falling damaged communities by using data based on topography, land cover, environment, and seismicity that may cause a specific hazard to occur that results in destruction and/or damage due to debris-flow, glacier movement from higher to lower elevation, which has damaged agricultural land, and erosional processes, putting communities at risk of great destruction