DevCon - An Association for Rural Development

Empowering Women Through Financial Literacy!
A collaborative session with JazzCash was successfully conducted at Awami Colony, Korangi, Karachi, engaging stitching and beautician course trainees of DevCon vocational —many of them are running their own small businesses.
The session aimed to equip women with essential financial knowledge, enabling them to manage and grow their earnings with confidence and independence.

DevCon teams have led the formation of WASH Clubs in the newly intervened schools of Malir and Korangi areas of Karachi. The objective is to encourage children to voluntarily cleanse and maintain school WASH and water filtration facilities. These forums also serve as platforms for menstrual hygiene, i.e. they first undergo trainings and then roll out the same to rest of the adolescent girls.

The ultimate aim is to ensure community ownership of DevCon built facilities- in partnership with WaterAid Pakistan. WaterAid Pakistan

DevCon teams are in the field to measure knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) of adolescent girls in Malir and Korangi areas of Karachi. So far, teams have engaged nearly 150 girl students –concerning hygiene habits and the status of existing WASH facilities.

In the course of this survey, rehabilitation of WASH infrastructure and unavailability of menstrual hygiene material at the schools have been listed to be two key challenges in schools. Our teams shall develop a range of WASH and menstrual hygiene behavior change interventions and that planning shall be informed by foundational data that we hope to get from this survey.

DevCon is implementing WASH facilities improvement and menstrual hygiene behavior change project in partnership with WaterAid Pakistan.

Factory Management Staff Training at International Textile Limited (ITL) - Korean Karachi. Approximately 40 management cadre employees attended the session and received “Health and Safety Environment and Gender Discrimination Training” completion certificates.

DevCon has partnered with Terre des hommes-Germany to implement this project in Sindh Pakistan.