Future Plans During 2024

1. Promotion and Advancement of Education

Promotion and advancement of education for the masses is the policy of the present government of Pakistan brings Pakistan to a respectable level of world literacy rate.

Subah is envisaged to contribute to this noble cause, and to raise the rate of enrolment of girls intend to start a chain of co-educational English Grammar Medium School in Balochistan at five districts. In the first phase a primary model English school will be established at Quetta during 2024, while remaining units of school will start very soon at needy districts/areas of Balochistan subject to availability of donor.

Every SUBAH School contains a well-trained staff and well-equipped medical health unit which is responsible for contributing towards the improved health and overall wellbeing of school students. This will promote health awareness and reduce the risk situation and behavior of young students. This basic health unit would be beneficial for school-going age children of the school. The main features of the BHU are free checkups, medicines, and advice to the students of the school, staff members, and area community.

This BHU will be very beneficial for the people of the area particularly women and children. This basic health unit operates day and night and provides medical services on nominal charges. Besides medical treatment, a female doctor, LHV, and midwife of the medical unit provide information and guidance in respect of family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, TB, Hepatitis, and other epidemic diseases.

The space of the school in the evening will be utilized for the promotion of international and national local languages such as English, Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Balochi, Brahvi, Punjabi, Sariaki, Kashmiri, and Urdu and different computer software training programs, cooking, baking, embroidery, and other life skills education programs. It is expected that the school language and life skills center will accommodate 720 students on nominal fees during 2024.

2. Introduction of Life Skills for Psychosocial Competence

Psychosocial competence is a person’s ability to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. It is a person’s ability to maintain a state of mental wellbeing and demonstrate this in adaptive and positive behavior while interacting with others, his/her culture, and environment. Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. During 2024, SUBAH Quetta planned a 5-day workshop to impart life skills-based education to school teachers and students.

3. Building Protective Environment for Children and Adolescents

Children represent the future; investing in children and their healthy development has benefits for society as a whole, for parents and families, and of course, for the children themselves. For building a protective environment for children and adolescents in different districts of Balochistan, during 2024 SUBAH Quetta has designed a detailed manual for the training of trainers of civil society organizations on child protection issues. The main objective of the training is to prepare master trainers in civil society organizations, CSOs, NGOs, and Government agencies on rights-based approaches on child protection issues and to strengthen advocacy and encourage pressure groups.

4. Establishing a Prisoner’s School & Legal Assistance Forum

SUBAH Quetta has planned to establish a prisoner’s school and a legal assistance forum at District and Central Jails during 2024. The initial and spade work has been done and negotiation with IG (Prisoner), Balochistan, and superintendent District & Central Jail is in process and same will be done very soon.

5. Protection of Environment and Wildlife

Protection of environment and wildlife is the leading objective of the SUBAH Quetta, and the organization is busy educating people of Balochistan about the importance and protection of the wildlife and environment and mobilizing them against all forms of discrimination, exploitation, and violence against wildlife. During 2024, SUBAH has planned a comprehensive awareness campaign for the protection of environment and wildlife.

6. Comprehensive Plan for Day Celebrations and Competitions

SUBAH Quetta has evolved for 2024 a comprehensive plan for day celebrations, walks on different occasions, grand rallies, speech competitions, painting competitions, and quiz competitions among the youth and school children from its own resources.

7. Establishing a Sewing Center

SUBAH Quetta plans to establish a sewing center with 10 sewing machines and a lady sewing instructor in the surrounding areas of Quetta where classes on cutting and sewing for women will be conducted to fulfill its assignment toward the empowerment of women.

8. Establishing Homoeopathic Medical Welfare Clinics

SUBAH Quetta has planned to establish a Homoeopathic Medical Welfare Clinic with a part-time homoeo doctor in a needy area of Quetta during 2019 where medical aid and medicines were provided at a nominal rate to the poor community of the area. During 2024, it is willing to establish more welfare homoeo clinics in different parts of Quetta city and its surroundings, particularly in rural areas, to provide medical health facilities to the poor folks of rural areas.

9. SUBAH Drop-in, Non-Formal, and Life Skills Based Education Center

The burgeoning adolescent group constitutes more than 1.76 billion people with 1.5 billion of them living in developing countries, and their numbers are expected to rise sharply over the years. With over 200 million people living in poverty, 130 million illiterate, 88 million unemployed, and 10 million living with HIV/AIDS, this youthful population is prone to many risky circumstances. This is because they are uninformed or poorly informed about the implications of their risky behaviors.

SUBAH Quetta realizes the importance and need of a drop-in-center and planned to establish three DICs in the surroundings of Quetta city during the year 2024. The drop-in-center stems from the concern with regards to the situation and dangers to the life of street-living and working children and adolescents, as the majority of street-living and working children have poor health status. Prevalence of respiratory infections, tuberculosis, and high-risk behavior is frequent, while rights protection and health awareness are low causing physical, psychological, emotional, and reproductive health problems.

Bathing and washing hands is a mandatory activity for all those street-living and working children visiting the drop-in-center. Life skill and HIV prevention training comprises basic health/STIs education along with the provision of basic health facilities like toilets, soap, bathing facilities, and basic refreshments at the centers. Flexible timing often supports children to come and visit DIC before, during, and after their work time. They will be provided with tea, biscuits, and audio-visual services during their stay. These centers will focus on a holistic approach towards capacity and skill building and provide the adolescents with problem-solving and coping mechanisms to deal with their daily problems.