Latest in: Poverty
Amjad Saqib has pioneered interest-free microfinance ...Read More
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Amid the continuing spread of the coronavirus around the world, a new study on the effects of the pandemic...December 5, 2020
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Taking 135,000 lives every year, air pollution has moved to the top of Pakistan’s economic and national health challenges....November 6, 2019
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How a charity is bridging Pakistan’s woeful healthcare gaps
Al Mustafa Trust, one of the largest charitable healthcare organizations in Pakistan, held a fund-raising dinner in Falls Church, VA last week, with some leading Pakistani-American doctors and philanthropists in attendance. The event afforded Pakistani-Americans an...October 23, 2019 1421 0 -
Akhuwat – Touching millions of lives with interest-free microfinance
In a society beset with gross socioeconomic inequalities, it might sound incredible but an organization in Pakistan is working effectively to pull the downtrodden out of poverty without putting a premium on its microfinance loans. Or,...June 21, 2019 1687 0 -
Migrant workers sent $481 billion remittances last year to benefit one billion people
Photo: UNDP on Sustainable Development Goals Remittances sent by migrant workers from around the world to their families touch lives of one in every seven persons on the planet – over one billion people. Millions of...June 17, 2018 1054 0