Street Children Resource Centre - Azad Foundation

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Azad Foundation is a registered non-profit organization working with children on streets since 2001. It was the time when the issue of street children was not believed to exist in Pakistan. Initiated as a social discussion forum in 1998 as Azad Group, we soon came to realize that this marginalized group is absent in development sector interventions and public policy. We established Azad Foundation as a research based organization but considering the gap in service provision and advocacy, developed interventions to address immediate needs of this group. While providing health and medical care, non-formal education, psychosocial counseling and transit shelter we kept on building capacity of relevant government departments and played part in policy development for sustainable government interventions can support and protect these children. Azad Foundation with support of UNICEF established a first of its kind street children resource center. This resource center promotes evidence based planning and programming for Children Living and/or Working on Streets. Furthermore, it provides opportunities for capacity building to government officials, civil society members, media affiliates and teachers/students of Universities and Colleges through short/long term training courses and project assignments. Its evidence producing/research and communication for development organs also support the policy advocacy and promotional efforts of Azad Foundation’s programmatic interventions.