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Water is and always has been a scarce resource in Pakistan. The demands of our cities, agriculture and industry have traditionally taken precedence over the needs of the natural environment, diminishing the flows of our rivers. Our rivers have been diverted, dammed and used for waste disposal. Our degraded rivers can be returned to health by promoting the return of water to the environment, establishing appropriate water pricing regimes, leaving our wild rivers in their natural state, preventing dams and weirs on rivers of high natural and cultural value, and encouraging better agricultural practices
Conference on Volunteering was held in
Ukraine. The
conventionaimed to inspire and motivate to 'think volunteering'. Conference was
chaired by Country
representative of SOW "Dr. Sardar Ahmad Sharif". Director Culture / Coordinator: Mr. Ibtesam Ul Asad successfully arranged a Musical Night which was attended and enjoyed by a large gathering. This event would be long remembered.
Our Current Issues:
Sow Cultural wing and the Educator arranged a Puppet and Magic Show for the Kids in the play Ground of "The Educator", Civil lines, Gujranwala, Pakistan.
SOW
receives email about minorities' problems in India: The
minority Muslim community in the Gujarat state of India has become a victim of
the worst ever ethnic cleansing exercise carried out by the ruling party’s
militant arms during the last two months of March and April, 2002.
Lets join hands and say NO to barbarism and tell the Indian
Government that it has to stop human rights violations in India and Kashmir. SOW
receives the email from.
GUJARAT SARVAJANIK RELIEF COMMITTEE, Ahmadabad, INDIA.
President of
SOW delivered speech high lighting the problem of Industrial pollution in
Gujranwala which is one of the largest industrial
As a first step towards claiming respectable status in the comity of nations The Government has declared the primary education as mandatory. This is done under the Compulsory Primary Education Program recently launched. The program aimed at motivating children aged 5 to 11 to go to school. This is hoped that "100 per cent" literacy rate will be attained in Pakistan within next three years, SOW spokes person said that the elected representatives, officers and others would strive to bring those children to schools, who were deprived of basic facility on account of various reasons. "Initially the campaign has been launched in Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Gujranwala, Quetta and Peshawar but it would be expanded to every nook and corner of the Pakistan". SOW spokes person further said the City Governments, in cooperation with the provincial and federal governments would bear the expenses of the course books, uniforms of the needy children besides stipends of Rs 50 per month. "No child in these cities would remain deprived of education in future due to the non availability of course books," he said and reiterated that the city governments would ensure spending of a huge budget for the purpose and an eagle-eyed monitoring of the utilization of the funds.
SOW Celebrate Kids' day. Children are our great asset. This year On World Kids' day children were very active. They delivered speeches high lighting the problems which the majority of children is facing. They demanded that bonded and child labor must be abolished as early as possible and children must be facilitated so much so that they may pay due attention to their first calling. Some children even offered to provide books and other things out of their pocket money to those children who are not attending schools. Their noble passions were appreciated by all those who attended the SOW Kids'day.
Ambassador of Pakistan; In Ukraine, the visit of the Ternopil State medical Institute Mr & Mrs. Ambassador With Sardar Ahmad Sharif (Country Representative of SOW in Ukraine).
Land clearing involves the destruction of native vegetation and habitats, including the bulldozing of native bush lands, forests, northern arias and native grasslands and the draining of natural wetlands. While the Federal Government has spent over one billion Rupees on repairing the environment, for every tree planted with this money by community volunteers We need national laws to control land clearing and protect our bush lands for future generations to enjoy. According to the United Nations, greenhouse gases are already changing the climate. The World Meteorological Organization has said the '90s was the hottest decade in the last thousand years Reducing greenhouse pollution requires us to become more efficient by moving from dirty to clean energy sources, using more public transport, and ending. On 5 December 2001 the
UN General Assembly
Walk Against Noise Pollution and for the protection of Nature.
Khawaja Afser Majeed (Country Representative Pakistan), And Mr. Bukhari President SOW is starting and project of Green Belt with the help of Gujranwala Nazim City, "Bao Javaid" at Dinanager road, Gujranwala, Pakistan
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cities
in Pakistan. Furnaces, Paper Board Factories, Tanneries and hundred and one
other small units are the main cause of industrial pollution. The President
raised two very important matters regarding pollution i.e. Pollution of subsoil
water and Polythene Shopping Bags which were the root cause of many types of
Cancer and other diseases.
adopted a resolution on recommendations for volunteer action, in which it
commended the ongoing contributions of all volunteers to society, encouraged all
people to become more engaged in voluntary activities, and decided that two
plenary meetings at its fifty-seventh session on 5 December 2002 should be
devoted to the outcome of the International Year of Volunteers and its
follow-up.
