Disabilities affect the entire family. Meeting the complex needs of a person with a disability can put the families under a great deal of stress; emotional, financial, and sometimes even physical. Wnzi works with persons with disabilities by making them self-reliant, economically independent and socially empowered by provision of financial and technical assistance which help them start their self-owned sustainable income generating enterprises. Wnzi provides business skills, training, equipment and funding to help disables become financially independent. They, may, can opt any small scaled business; like opening school canteens, home-based shops, small backyard poultry, stitching clothes and school uniforms, school TuK Shops etc. This may increase their level of activity, self-confidence and skills so that they become more self-reliant and economically self-sustaining.

With the financial assistance of potential donors, Wnzi is also planning to provide Assistive Technologies, devices and equipment, to help the persons with disabilities. These devices will help enhance the functional independence and make their daily living tasks easier. Through the use of such aids a person may can travel, communicate with others, learn, work, and participate in social and recreational activities. An example of an assistive technology can be anything from a low-tech device, such as a magnifying glass, to a high tech device, such as a special computer that talks and helps someone communicate. Other examples are wheelchairs, walkers, and scooters, which are mobility aids that can be used by persons with physical disabilities.

The loss of a partner, for many women, is magnified by a long-term struggle for their basic needs, human rights and dignity. They may be denied inheritance rights to the piece of land that they relied on for livelihood or evicted from their homes, forced into unwanted marriages or traumatizing widowhood rituals. For widows and underprivileged women, life is challenging with no opportunity to work, no child care help and living in shelters or improvised homes. Basic human necessities such as warmth and food are a struggle while clean running water and children education is just a dream. These widows have no source of sustenance and have also to bear the responsibility of aged parents-in-law and young children.

The widows and impoverished women living in the village communities along the LoC in Pakistan-administered Kashmir are facing multiple challenges like lack of access to productive resources, discrimination, violence and extreme poverty. Wnzi works with widows and poor women from these areas for making them self-reliant, economically independent and socially empowered by provision of financial and technical assistance which help them start their self-owned sustainable income generating enterprises. Creating selfemployment and business opportunities is the key pillar of Wnzi’s approach to working with widows and destitute women. Wnzi provides business skills, training, equipment and funding to help widows become financially independent. Women can may opt any small scaled business; like opening school canteens, home-based shops, small backyard poultry, stitching clothes and school uniforms, school TuK Shops etc.

An orphan is a child under 18 years of age who has lost one or both parents to any cause of death. There are nearly 140 million orphans globally. This large figure represents not only children who have lost both parents, but also those who have lost a father but have a surviving mother or have lost their mother but have a surviving father who battle to put his family out of poverty. Poverty and education are inextricably linked, because people living in poverty may stop going to school so they can work, which leaves them without literacy and numeracy skills they need to further their careers. Their children, in turn, are in a similar situation years later, with little income and few options but to leave school and work. Wnzi through its experience has learnt that if we support the education of a deprived child, it would provide a better future for the whole family.

An orphan is a child under 18 years of age who has lost one or both parents to any cause of death. There are nearly 140 million orphans globally. This large figure represents not only children who have lost both parents, but also those who have lost a father but have a surviving mother or have lost their mother but have a surviving father who battle to put his family out of poverty. Poverty and education are inextricably linked, because people living in poverty may stop going to school so they can work, which leaves them without literacy and numeracy skills they need to further their careers. Their children, in turn, are in a similar situation years later, with little income and few options but to leave school and work. Wnzi through its experience has learnt that if we support the education of a deprived child, it would provide a better future for the whole family.