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The MAK Welfare Trust donated Rs 15 million to assist flood-affected families by aiding relief and reconstruction work in the worst-hit areas of Pakistan.

We collaborated with Akhuwat Foundation to help flood-affected people by distributing 2,000 ration bags worth Rs 10 million in DG Khan, Punjab; Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; Khairpur and Thatta, Sindh; and Pasheen, Balochistan. The ration bags contained a variety of food items for approximately one month of sustenance for a family of six to seven individuals. Additionally, a contribution of Rs 5 million was made for the long-term rehabilitation of the affected areas.

Through its sister concern, Premier Diverse Learning Concepts (PDLC), a project that works for school improvement, MAK Welfare Trust also provided shelter to 400 families at a government-adopted school in Kolab Jial, Sindh, along with food supplies and basic healthcare facilities for a month.

A week-long donation drive for clothing and bedding was also organised across more than 1,100 campuses of Beaconhouse, The Educators, and Concordia Colleges nationwide. The collections of these were donated to Akhuwat Foundation’s Clothes Bank through the MAK welfare trust.

We also plan to make a contribution to the relief fund recently set up by the federal government.

In 2010, MAK Welfare Trust donated Rs 10 million to official Flood Relief Funds along with relief goods.

In 2011, a total of Rs 35.5 million were contributed by MAK and its volunteers. The funds were utilised for the reconstruction of a village in Moza Lal Shah consisting of 25 houses. This project was initiated under ‘Adopt a Village Programme’ by the Punjab Government through PDMA. Construction of a co-education primary school in Moza Lal Shah for 300 to 400 students. Reconstruction of three government schools. These rebuilding efforts were undertaken in collaboration with the Army Headquarters 11 Corps.

The MAK Welfare Trust launched a relief operation for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in 2009, when Pakistan faced a massive refugee crisis during Operation Rah-e-Nijat, the Pakistan military's air and ground offensive against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants of South Waziristan.

More than 120 volunteers were engaged in humanitarian work at the camps set up in Mardan. These activities were targeted around aiding 3000 to 5000 families in five to six weeks. Cash, medicines, sleeping mats, pedestal fans and hand fans, dry food, water coolers and shoes were distributed among the IDPs. The Trust also provided financial assistance and necessities to about 250 Christian IDP families sheltered at the Lutheran Church in Mardan.

The MAK Trust and the Kasuri family contributed Rs 40 million towards covid relief for the procurement and distribution of essential food items as ‘ration packs’ mainly to daily-wage workers and their families. These ration packs included necessary food supplies to help sustain a family of 5 for approximately one month, and over 13,000 households in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad/Rawalpindi, and Kasur were reached.

A further Rs 20 million was donated by the Trust to the Prime Minister’s Covid-19 Relief Fund.

Mahmud Ali Kasuri (MAK) Welfare Trust, established in 1994, is an independent, non-profit organisation that works towards the development and uplift of the underserved. The Trust and its key donors, Beaconhouse, the Kasuri family, and Beaconhouse employees, have consistently responded with meaningful contributions during national crises including the 2005 earthquake that devastated the northern areas of Pakistan, the IDP crisis of 2009, and the massive flooding of 2010 and 2014. Most recently, the MAK Welfare Trust contributed Rs 22 million for the construction of student toilets and classrooms in 48 government primary schools in District Gujranwala.