Kasur SOS Social Centre

The SOS Social Centre, Kasur runs a Rural Support Programme supporting over 8,000 orphaned and vulnerable children and their families in thirty-one villages in the remote border area near Lahore. It is acknowledged as a model for supporting the poorest families in rural communities and transforming their lives. The SOS Social Centre focusses on health and education, including adult literacy and skills training. The local community is involved in all the initiatives with local committees meeting regularly to discuss the problems faced by the community and to find ways of solving them through self-help. The SOS Social Centre has achieved increased literacy among men and women, an increase in the number of children attending school, improved sanitation and clean water. The SOS Social Centre also provides basic health care with free treatment and free medicine and an immunisation programme for children.