AUGUST 2015

SYB Members Registration!

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Membership is open now! Hurry up & get registered.

SYB Welfare Clinic Project – Doctors wanted

We require volunteer Young Doctors (fresh pass outs, house job

ones) for implementation of our "Welfare Clinic" program for the

poor and unprivileged persons. We need 3-4 motivated and self-

driven doctors who can spare few hours for couple of days a

week to help us initiate our Clinic to look after general diseases.

The passion to help the needy has to be there. This is entirely

not for profit project; however in the long term if we expand this,

we can pay the Doctors on break-even basis to meet their

expenses. Location will be decided mutually with the doctors.

Contact us if you are interested to join us.

Contact us if you’ve any idea/project on which SYB needs to work

Share Your Blessings SYB

is a social welfare group

formed to help the needy

and deserving persons of

our society. We are

blessed with so many

blessings in our live & we

need to share them with

others to reduce

inequalities.

Share Your Blessings is

about reaching out to the

needy people &

supporting them. It is

about fulfilling hope &

spreading happiness to

the underprivileged

people. SYB is platform for

like-minded people who

wants to give back to

the society with their

time, knowledge, skills &

financial resources.

Our members are unpaid

volunteers who work in

the field of Education,

Healthcare, Job Aid,

Marriage Assistance,

Social Events, and Poverty

Alleviation through

various projects, events

and activities. SYB has

done over 1.5 million

rupees worth of projects

during 1.5 years’ time.

AUGUST 2015

Event of the Month!

SYB CELEBRATED FUN DAY AT HELP

THALASSEMIA CENTER WITH KIDS

Team SYB celebrated a fun day with the kids suffering

from Thalassemia at HELP Thalassemia Center (Dhoraji) on

22nd August. The event included magic show for the kids,

chocolates & sandwich/juices distribution and we also

gave different toys and coloring books etc to the kids and

brought a smile to their faces. The event also included a

small briefing on Thalassemia by HELP group. We thank all

the members for their active participation and

contribution & Furqan Ghazi of HELP for inviting us.

Do you know SYB sent 6 tons of Ration & Water for Thar drought

affected areas in last year March through Pak Army? It was SYB’s

first mega project of almost 0.4 million rupees.

AUGUST 2015

SYB NEEDY CASE OF THE MONTH

Living in Hazara goth Gulistan e joher a family needs financial and medical

help. This family has three disabled children and one of them is a three

years son who is in critical condition with typhoid. He is admitted in

Jinnah hospital since last few weeks. Mother of this child is a maid and

father is jobless now a days, can't afford medicines and hospital bills.

Almost daily they have to purchase medicine's in1000 to1500 rupees.

They live in a one room rented house. We are looking to generate funds

to help this family and get them out of crisis. Father's contact number:

Zafar: 03032797658. Address. L 111 hazara goth. Gulistan e joher.

AUGUST 2015

Syed Mohsin Founder & President of Share Your Blessings receives Youth Champion award at I am

Karachi where he presented his Life story and the thought process that lead to creation of SYB and how

we are able to do projects in the field of healthcare, education, poverty alleviation, marriage assistance

and social events etc. The event was organized by I am Karachi & School of Leadership (SOL) on

International Youth Day during 12 & 13th August, 2015 at Pearl Continental Hotel Karachi.

Abdul Basit

Shahzaib Iqbal

Syed Mohsin

Wajeeha Mazhar

Isha Ahmad

Ahmed Tirmizi, Rabbiya Tirmizi, Asif Khan & Shahid Ali (Starting from Left). The executive team includes core team and the following members.

AUGUST 2015

STORY OF THE MONTH

Bonded Labor (which is a special type of

Forced Labor) exists mainly in Asian and

agricultural societies. Actually this type of

labor mostly crops up in cases where

monetary/financial deals occur such as loans.

It is a result of the peshgi system where a

family member takes advance payment from

an employer and in return pledges the child to

work until the loan is paid off.

Debt bondage, regardless of whether parents

have contracted a debt that is to be paid off by

their own labor or by pledging the services of

their children, places children ultimately at the

mercy of the landowner, contractor or money-

lender, where they suffer from both economic

hardship and educational deprivation. The

main difference between adult and child

bonded labor is that children have not

themselves contracted the debt – it was done

on their behalf by adults. The link between

child labor and the inter-generational

perpetuation of poverty could hardly be

clearer.

Poverty and the existence of people prepared

to exploit the desperation of others are at the

heart of debt bondage. Without land or the

benefits of education, the need for money for

daily survival forces people to sell their labor

in exchange for a lump sum or loan. Parents

are driven to accept money in exchange for

allowing their children to work outside their

village, often in the hope that their child will be

better off working for a more affluent family.

Caste, discrimination along ethnic, religious

and gender lines and continuing feudal

agricultural relationships are also key to the

existence of bonded labor and in allowing it to

thrive.

The Bonded labor Liberation Front in 1992

estimated that eight million children were

bonded in Pakistan. Half a million were

allegedly bonded in the carpet industry alone.

These figures are outdated and no official

figures are available to determine the number

of children who are working as bonded labor.

The United Nations estimates that there are

millions enslaved as bonded laborers in

Pakistan. Most recent estimates by the

independent Human Rights Commission of

Pakistan place the number of bonded laborers

in Pakistan between three to eight million.

In Pakistan, bonded labor has long been a

feature in brick kilns, carpet industries,

agriculture, fisheries, stone/brick crushing,

shoe-making, power looms, & refuse sorting.

Recently Brandon Stanton of “Humans of New

York” covered this issue during his visit to

Pakistan & brought it to lime light once again.

AUGUST 2015

Share Your Blessings is also looking for a place to open

its SYB Center which will act as a Social

Entrepreneurship, Skill development & Youth Training

Center. If you know any such feasible place do let us

know at shareyourblessings.khi@gmail.com

Join us, doesn’t matter if you are a teen ager, a student, professional or stay at

home house wife. We need thinking brains which can bring new ideas, participate on

the field and off the field. We require volunteers for: 1) Content Writers 2) SYB Educational Team 3) SYB Healthcare Team 4) SYB Case Investigators Team 5) SYB Marketing Team 6) SYB Official Photographers 7) SYB Healthcare team

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Membership is open now! Hurry up & get registered.

AUGUST 2015