ARM CHILD & YOUTH WELFARE
ARM Child & Youth Welfare has been
working on different social issues such as health, education, youth
development, career guidance, sports and women empowerment since 1985 in Lyari
and other remote areas of Karachi. Rotary Club of Karachi Metropolitan is supporting ARM in different projects.
Vision
Youth Would be educated as well as understand the civic, socio economic and political values to make change in the society, further he would financially be blissful with his intended profession
Mission To educate, train and groom the youth enabling them to make civic, socio-economic and political change in the society and mentoring them for their career.
Vision
Youth Would be educated as well as understand the civic, socio economic and political values to make change in the society, further he would financially be blissful with his intended profession
Mission To educate, train and groom the youth enabling them to make civic, socio-economic and political change in the society and mentoring them for their career.
Historical Overview
Lyari is the oldest area of Karachi. The people of Lyari are daily wage earners, mostly manual laborers, but few are employees of various Government Institutions. Since Pakistan Inception, Lyari has been a house of problems, such as education, unemployment, water & sewerage, electricity and so on.
Baghdadi is one of the important segments of Lyari. Before formation of ARM, it had been a place of drug pushers and the drug Mafia. They recruited youth and children of the area as sellers.The place where ARM is situated had been a garbage dump. All over the people of Baghdadi used to dispose their garbage here.
Before 1985, there was an inverse pyramid of educational facilities. There was a high drop out rate in schools. Most teachers in government schools were untrained. Thus the schools imparted a very low standard of education. As children did not get benefit from schools and just used to waste their times. Parents often did not send their children to schools encouraging them to work. Private schools were preferred, but they were so expensive, that poor could not afford them.
Baghdadi is one of the important segments of Lyari. Before formation of ARM, it had been a place of drug pushers and the drug Mafia. They recruited youth and children of the area as sellers.The place where ARM is situated had been a garbage dump. All over the people of Baghdadi used to dispose their garbage here.
Before 1985, there was an inverse pyramid of educational facilities. There was a high drop out rate in schools. Most teachers in government schools were untrained. Thus the schools imparted a very low standard of education. As children did not get benefit from schools and just used to waste their times. Parents often did not send their children to schools encouraging them to work. Private schools were preferred, but they were so expensive, that poor could not afford them.
Establishment of ARM
In 1985, a few neighborhood youths began the program to stop youth and children from being involved with drug pushers and drug Mafia. Accordingly they formed ARM Child & Youth Welfare on April 18, 1985. They removed all drug sellers and Mafia from Baghdadi area. They cleared garbage dumps and set up a street school where they started to educate the children of the area. At the beginning they sewed discarded bags of flour together and used them in place of curtain. Children sat on the mats.
CONNECTING WITH
ROTARY CLUB OF KARACHI METROPOLITAN Year 1990 proved eventful for ARM Child & Youth Welfare, by the time Lyari’s street school had gained recognition and fame in Karachi and beyond, via the print media. A journalist Aisha Azfar of a local evening paper for a story moved visited the ARM’s Street School. By recognizing the team’s selfless work and its resources, the journalist brought along with her a representative of Rotary Club of Karachi Metropolitan Mr. Ejaz Ahed on her second visit. Thus a long term and fruitful linkage began between ARM and Rotary Club of Karachi Metropolitan.
Rotary used initial grants to upgrade ARM’s infrastructure. They replaced mats with wooden benches, ordered a proper canvas, curtain and arranged stationery, books, and other related materials to donate them. Rotary Club of Karachi Metropolitan has been supporting nearly all mentioned projects and activities of ARM since 1990.
FORMATION OF ROTARY COMMUNITY CORPS, BAGHDADI When the relations between ARM & Rotary Club of Karachi Metropolitan had become stronger, Rotary Club registered ARM as Rotary Community Corps (RCC), Baghdadi affiliated with Rotary International. Later on all projects have been funded by Rotary, through RCC Baghdadi.
Rotary used initial grants to upgrade ARM’s infrastructure. They replaced mats with wooden benches, ordered a proper canvas, curtain and arranged stationery, books, and other related materials to donate them. Rotary Club of Karachi Metropolitan has been supporting nearly all mentioned projects and activities of ARM since 1990.
FORMATION OF ROTARY COMMUNITY CORPS, BAGHDADI When the relations between ARM & Rotary Club of Karachi Metropolitan had become stronger, Rotary Club registered ARM as Rotary Community Corps (RCC), Baghdadi affiliated with Rotary International. Later on all projects have been funded by Rotary, through RCC Baghdadi.