Thaakat’s Feed the Need Annual Charity Basketball Tournament features exciting games, great sportsmanship, amazing turnout and family fun-- all in the name of charity.
Every year, more than 200 participants take to the courts to battle it out for the top spot. The tourney features both community and advanced level brackets.
Help us construct a state-of-the-art 50-bed medical facility with a focus around ear, nose, and throat (ENT) health and more broadly supporting head and neck departments. The facility will be 4 floors and will offer other specialized medical services in the fields of:
Pediatrics
Dermatology
Dental
Orthopedics
Psychiatric
Nutrition
Service Area
Our service area covers everything in Karachi from Jam Chakro to the north to outskirts of New Karachi to the south. With a 10 km radium from the hospital, we operate five schools and run several civic and food development programs in partnership with IAK to serve these communities.
Cost and Timeline
The total cost of the 4 floor hospital will be approximately $600,000. Each floor will cost $140,000.
We have already purchased the land and will begin construction promptly in 2023 as soon as we have reached our first funding goal of $200,000.
According to the UN’s Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), heavy monsoon rainfall and floods have affected some 2.3 million people in Pakistan since mid-June, destroying at least 95,350 houses and damaging a further 224,100.
HOW CAN YOU HELP? Most immediately there is a need to provide food relief. Our team is on the ground in Dadu village, located in Interior Sindh and is surveying the area. Other non profits have already established tents and temporary living shelters until the water recedes.
There is a need to provide at least 1000 food relief packages (at $15 each) containing: Cooking Oil (1 LTR), Flour (10 KG), Rice (3KG), Sugar (1KG), Soaps, Spices, Milk Pack (1 LTR), Salt, Matchsticks, Lentils (2KG), Tea.
Your monthly contribution helps provide the year long support for a well deserving child, including:
* You can cancel or change your monthly support at any time
100% of proceeds will go towards these causes.
More than 85% of total funding comes from the general public. We don’t have big pockets but we hope to achieve great things and can only do this with your support. As much as we plan ahead, we are always in need of funds. Your donation to our general fund helps to ensure we are covered especially in our most difficult times.
Donations can be designated to a specific project, or they are distributed across project sites in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Pakistan.
100% of proceeds will go towards these causes.