What is Nighaban?
About Us
Nighaban Foundation is an NGO in Pakistan which supports people's access to income generation, healthcare, community development, education and emergency response activities, especially for women.
Income Generation
Income generating activities include selling chips, cosmetics, toys, live animals, sewing machines, rickshaws, motorbikes, and home cooked meals.
To help communities become self-sufficient, Nighaban opens modest stores in villages and works with the locals. The villagers receive effective training on how to live a better life and learn vital life lessons. We also provide interest free loans to help people generate revenue.
Medicines & Healthcare
Nighaban brings patients from a number of villages to Karachi for treatments including physiotherapy, orthopaedic rehabilitation, cancer, cerebral palsy, heart surgeries and reconstructive operations. Based on their ailments, we also teach patients about proper nutritious eating habits.
In June 2023, Nighaban organised free health camps in Karachi with the help of specialised doctors, providing the patients medicines, and preliminary lab tests. In some cases, patients who require additional scans, X-rays, and mammograms are sent to other test centres free of cost.
OUR SERVICES
Eid-ul-Fitr & Eid-ul-Adha
Disaster Recovery Management (Building Homes with Solar Panels)
Eid-ul-Fitr & Eid-ul-Adha
During Eid ul Fitr, we distribute children's gifts, clothes, Ramzan rations, and other essentials.
During Eid ul Adha, Eid lunches are provided using qurbani animals. Nighaban offers live animals for breeding in order to generate income.
Educational Opportunities
Disaster Recovery Management (Building Homes with Solar Panels)
Eid-ul-Fitr & Eid-ul-Adha
Nighaban provides educational opportunities. and offers scholarships for fees, uniforms and books. We train individuals in a number of subjects including photography, nursing, beautician, computing, electrician, and air conditioning.
Disaster Recovery Management (Building Homes with Solar Panels)
Disaster Recovery Management (Building Homes with Solar Panels)
Disaster Recovery Management (Building Homes with Solar Panels)
When a disaster occurs, Nighaban moves the affected individuals to a safe site, and provides them with hot meals, daily fumigation for all tents, animals, and hospitals. We also provide mosquito nets and repellents, and medical supplies if necessary.
The next stage requires us to pump out all the excess water from the fields.
In the final stage, we help the villagers build homes equipped with solar panels along with rations, beddings, and utensils.
Tree Plantation
Wells and Water Supply
Disaster Recovery Management (Building Homes with Solar Panels)
Nighaban organises plantation drives and is very conscientious about climate change.
During the drive in August 2021, over two thousand trees were planted in different areas and parks all over Karachi including Kidney Hill Park.
We donated rectangular pots, soil, vegetable seeds and Moringa plants to contribute towards the daily nutritional requirements of more than 100 widows in over 30 villages in the Kot Gulam Mohammad area.
Wells and Water Supply
Wells and Water Supply
Wells and Water Supply
Nighaban works with the villagers to enjoy fresh water 365 days a year. Thus, they do not have to walk several miles in order to access fresh, clean water in limited quantities.
In 2017, Nighaban began digging wells, installing water pipelines and building water storage tanks.
Donors are given the opportunity to construct wells in the name of one of their loved ones.
Community Development
Wells and Water Supply
Wells and Water Supply
Nighaban provides winter clothing including jackets, blankets, caps, shawls, towels, tooth brushes and toothpaste. In addition, we assist villagers in attaining CNIC cards and B forms.
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