YWAM RELIEF

March 2009

Women's Leadership Conference, Karachi.

The conference is over but the consequences remain. The Joy, Hope and Spirit of Freedom that rested over us throughout the two days still linges on. "Everything is different" remarked one young lady a day later, "Something has happened, it is amazing, we feel different about ourselves."

Women are keen to find out how to participate meaningfully in their societies and now they know it is possible. Even from the beginning of the conference they were coming to the front to dance freely, happy that they were significant people.

Those who had already initiated social work have been affirmed, while others have realised they no longer have to hang about on the sidelines. there is something they can do to transform the world for the good too!

As agents of social transformation and the primary nurturers of the next generation, their confidence as leaders is crucial. It is now time for training!

DTS training, Primary Health Care, Educational skills, Reconcilliation and conflict resolution skills, small Businesses, Social Enterprises are things that lie in the future as they find their feet moving into their destinies as effective leaders able to convey hope and purpose in life to others..

This event is to be followed by a large youth event later in the year. The purpose is to ignite their hope too. To build them up,and help to raise a generation to reach out to the poor and needy, to assist them to engage with the social and spiritual realities that created poverty and suffering.

They are the future for the relief and development we long to see take place in impoverished communities and tribes around the nation.

A nation's best resource is always in its people.

'The glory of God is a person fulfilled' , St. Ignatious.

PAKISTAN

1. The current statistics present the following profile of poverty:
2. 42 million or roughly 30% of the population are poor; 47 million adults or 62% of the adult population cannot read or write,
3. 76% of the female adult population is illiterate.

In addition, eight million children are out of school; 61 million people or 45% of the population have no access to safe drinking water; 54 million people or 40% of the population have no access to even basic health services; 72 million people or 53% of the population have no access to sanitation; nine million children under the age of five or 38% of the under-five population are malnourished.

A Profile of Poverty in Pakistan, prepared by the Mahbubul Haq Centre for Human Development (MHCHD) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 2006.

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