HOPE VOCATIONAL CENTRES
Vocational Centers in different areas provide learning opportunities for young girls & boys in the area. Sewing, cutting and embroidery classes are held for young girls. Computer classes provide software and hardware training for both boys and girls. In these slum areas the youth has no other opportunities to access computers, Internet facilities are also provided. English language classes are also held for youth. This helps in providing income generation activities.

HOPE SCHOOLS
School for children who cannot afford to go to school. Text books provided free of cost. Qualified teachers from the community teach the children. Majority of the children in these impoverished area, who were unable to attend school are now studying in the HOPE School. HOPE School in Karachi provides primary and secondary education to children in the impoverished areas. Nearly 750 children are studying in the morning and evening shifts in Karachi. A science laboratory also provide matric in science facility where no other science school is present. In Thatta, where educational facilities are lacking, nearly 250 children are studying up to Primary School. Most of the children in Thatta work in the fields and do not go to school. We also tried to maintain a good education standard in the Thatta school.

HOPE HOME SCHOOLS
HOPE Home Schools located all over Karachi and rural Thatta. Nearly 3000 children are studying in 60 Home - Schools. These schools are located with in the house of the girl so she does not need to go out of the house. We provide free books to the children as well as school supplies to the teacher including dari, black board, stationary etc. Educated community girls teach un affording children who would otherwise play on the streets. In each school 30 to 35 children study. These are primary level schools. However, secondary level home school provide education up to matric for dropout girls students. Through Adult Literacy Classes, women are given basic literacy. They are thus able to read and write.

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTRES (MCH)
Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Centres located in various Katchi Abadies and rural areas including Manzoor Colony, Bilal Colony, Ghaggar Phatak, Mujahid Colony, Bhittaiabad. Theses provide basic maternal and child care, including ante-natal care, nutrition, normal delivery, immunization.

HOPE SETS UP OFFICE IN EARTHQUAKE AREAS (A.J.K.)
When the earthquake struck the northern parts of Pakistan, on 8th Oct 2005, many NGOs rushed to the site to provide emergency relief. The HOPE team also took part in the relief activities and a 17 member team comprising of doctors and paramedics took part in the relief activities. However, HOPE continued its activities both in the health and education sectors in the earthquake areas and visited these areas atleast thrice. With the assistance of UNICEF, HOPE started a new project for rehabilitating the nutrition status of children under 5 years and pregnant and lactating mothers. With the onset the earthquake and displacement of families, children have been the main sufferers and a majority of them have become malnourished. HOPE is working with LHVs and doctors working in the Basic Health Units (BHUs) as well as other health facilities, providing them with the nutritional supplement containing of micronutrients and monitoring their growth. Activities will also involve counseling mothers in their villages and
working on various health related issues of children and women. Two offices have been set up- one in Muzaffarabad and the other in Bagh District. HOPE is providing services in M zaffarabad and Bagh Districts as well as Neelum Valley.

DADU
HOPE has started work in the flood affected areas of Dadu, with the collaboration of UNICEF. HOPE has started work in two Talukas of Dadu- Johi and K N Shah. This involves setting up of a 10 bedded ward for children, managed by HOPE at the Civil Hospital, Dadu, where children with malnutrition and associated complications of diarrhea, ARI etc are being treated. In addition, two mobile teams of doctors are visiting the flood affected areas and treating nutrition deficiencies in the displaced populations. HOPE is planning to reach 28,000 children and 20,000 pregnant and lactating mothers. Supplementary food in the form of UNIMIX and plumpy nuts is being provided by UNICEF.