Slide 1 of 4: Changing Lives. One Village at a Time.
Serving the rural areas of Sindh, Pakistan
We began in Village Khairo Dero in 2008 and have since expanded to communities and districts across Sindh.
The Trust is named for the late Mr Ali Hasan Mangi, a teacher, social activist and businessman born in 1913 in Rato Dero, near Larkana. Poverty was not an abstraction to him — he lived it, and spent his life giving scholarships, food and shelter to people who had none.
Founded in 2008 by his granddaughter Naween A. Mangi, the Trust carries that work forward as an integrated rural development organisation. We help village families get better access to basic infrastructure, education and healthcare — and we do it alongside them, never over them.
We help village families get better access to basic infrastructure, education and healthcare.
Children in villages across Sindh typically spend their days grazing livestock, sitting at tea shops or playing on farmland. Many of them are enrolled in government schools but don't attend; those who do, receive a very poor quality of education. We aim to provide quality education through our schools, skills training programs and scholarship fund that helps buy school supplies for children.
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Impoverished communities in rural Sindh either rely on faith healers and untrained dispensers when someone falls sick or take on high-interest loans to pay for expensive private clinics in the city. Through our free Virtual Clinic run in collaboration with HealthX, we aim to provide adequate primary healthcare services to the public. For specialist care and complex surgery, we run a medical assistance program that takes care of patients in Larkana, Sukkur and Karachi. Our aim is to ensure the poor get access to the same medical care that affluent people do.
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Barren, derelict villages are the hallmark of Sindh. We are working to provide basic facilities such as playgrounds, activity centers, libraries, sanitation systems, public toilets and public water hand-pumps to make daily life easier and more productive for village communities.
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Most families in rural Sindh live without proper shelter, clean water, toilets, kitchens, electricity or cooking gas. One village at a time, we are working to provide these families with these very basic facilities that ensure the safety, comfort and dignity every single person deserves and has a right to.
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Villages across Sindh were devastated by the unprecedented rains and floods of 2022. Hundreds of thousands lost their homes and suffered through sickness, injuries and loss of income.
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We work with Mohsin Babar Productions, a top dance-theatre company, to help promote and preserve our cultural heritage of dance and theatre.
Read moreWe expect all the communities we work with to partner with us in their development. They take on a share of between 10 and 40 percent, depending on the project.
Nothing is more important to our team than to serve our communities with the utmost dignity to ensure everyone feels respected and valued.
We never go to communities assuming we know what they need and want. To the contrary, all our projects are based on what people themselves aspire to.
Our teams have been trained to help with compassion and to treat everyone in the way they themselves would like to be treated.
We're proud that our entire team is made up of people belonging to the same villages and their knowledge is irrefutable.
We use local products and local expertise to ensure they are relevant and affordable.
·Naween Mangi
·Zubeida Mustafa
·Zubeida Mustafa
