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Sheed Society

About

Website URL:	http://sheedsociety.org/
Partnership Status:	Partner
Partner Headquarters (City):	Lahore
Partner Headquarters (Country):	Pakistan
Primary Country of Operation:	Pakistan

Description

SheedSociety.org was a tiny NGO when first founded by Lubna Tayyab in 1995. Sheed was established to address the lack of education and to create HIV/AIDS awareness among the prostitutes and their children living shunned and oppressed in Pakistan.

Please view a video made by our partner, Sheed Society (Pakistan):

Impact

In this community, illiteracy and abuse are widespread. Since most men are unemployed, with no other means to support their families, the women sell their bodies. Generations pass on what they know – mother sell their daughters and sons are forced into child labor, drugs and crime.

The majority of their employees are hired from within the community to provide opportunity and growth. Two schools have been built along with a health care clinic providing free medical care.

Many children are the first in their families to become literate and may be the first to find a job outside of the sex trade.

Interactions with Givology

Sheed Society is a small grassroots organization that Givology has chosen to work with on a project-by-project basis. Sheed has a US correspondent who serves as the liaison between Sheed's Pakistani and US operations, as well as the Givology team. This US contact is also providing Givology with regular visual and written updates.

Students and Projects:

Teacher Training and Support - Ms. Sania
$245 of $490 donated
Punjab, Pakistan
Ms. Sania of age 22 years is working as school teacher with SHEED Society from last five years. Her education is matriculation (continued to stay and teach in the same institution). She was brought up in red light area Lahore by her parents and knew the situation of the children of the sex workers. She also has witnessed that many of young girls of the sex workers were forced by their mothers and acre takers in the prostitution only because they were not provided opportunity of the education and had no other choices for income. She says “I joined the SHEED Society only because of the reasons that SHEED is committed to work for the rights of the female sex workers and their children. After joining the SHEED society I am able to contribute for the efforts the education of the children. The students of my class now have dream to become TV artists, Teachers, Doctors, Managers etc but none of them says that they will be a prostitute in future. These outcomes give me much satisfaction a...

Teacher Training and Support - Alia
$210 of $490 donated
Pakistan
Alia was born in red light area Lahore and luckily got chance to complete the matriculation level education, staying in same school system locally. She wanted to be teachers and got the chance to get a job of school teacher in SHEED Society. Her age is 31 years and is associated with SHEED Society as school teacher for the last five years. Although her family has never been associated with the prostitution, they were totally against her work in red light area as a school teacher for the education of children of sex workers. Being an educated woman, Alia knew that female sex workers and their children have rights and to provide them the opportunity of education will help them to find other options for their livelihoods. She convinced her family members for continuation of her job as school teacher in SHEED Society. Alia says “main reason for continuation of my job as school teacher for the children of sex workers is that I believe that children of sex workers can only get rid of pr...