Beriah’s Boutique in Lahore is an outlet for Umeed-trained women to sell their embroidered products for a fair wage. Opened in 2006, the Boutique provides work for the UP-trained women to enable them to earn enough money to support their families without depending for 100% support from their husbands and brothers. Beriah’s Boutique is effectively a wholesaler supplying products...
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Along with women, children are also equally vulnerable in Pakistan. For such children the Umeed Partnership has opened one primary and one middle school in two marginalised ‘dalit’ communities near Yazman in the Cholistan Desert in southern Punjab Province.  These schools are being run for the children of desert communities far from major cities, and so do not enjoy the...
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The UP Project Co-ordinator in Pakistan is working with Clive Southerton (UP) to bring to fruition Clive’s ambition for a multi-cultural/multi-national production of Joseph & the Amazing Techicolour Dreamcoat in Wales and Ireland.  This production,  involving young people from Pakistan, Wales, England, Ireland and Singapore will take place in October 2010. Clive will be...
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 Yousuf Gill Jalal, the Umeed partnership Project Co-ordinator, has reported that the Umeed Sports Club has recently been formed to provide opportunities for young men to participate in cricket, who would otherwise not have the opportunity due to lack of leadership and resources.  At present there are three Umeed cricket teams – Loralai (Balochistan),  Yazman Bahawalpur and...
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Bangor Rotary Club has awarded a grant of £500 to the Umeed Partnership for the purchase of furniture and educational equipment for the new multi-faith Umeed Middle School in the Bahawalpur District of southern Punjab in Pakistan. This is surely an example of an organisation with vision understanding that reconciliation between peoples of different faiths and cultures can be achieved...
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In April 2010 the Trustees of the George and Mary Crosfield Charitable Trust awarded a further grant of £400 to the Umeed Project (£400 had already been awarded in July 2009).  James Crosfield, one of the Trustees,  remarked that the Umeed Partnership Mission Statement coincided exactly with the objectives and principles of the Trust, which had...
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