Development Area (DA) 14

For making the poverty history in the fisher communities, PFF and ActionAid got together in 2003. In this regard, six core key areas, i.e. education, health, food rights, good governance, women rights and peace and human security were selected to be addressed. The work on these core areas was done through the right based approach by involving the local people and lobbying with stakeholders. In the whole process, the major aim was to bring over the people into PFF’s struggle for advancing social justice the fishers.

Since PFF had already been engaged with the fisher communities of coastal belt of Karachi in the mobilization activities therefore it had developed an understanding about the areas socio, economic and political conditions. These are counted as one of the most disaster prone areas of Pakistan. People are the most vulnerable of twister, cyclone and tsunami. The twister brought havoc and paralyzed the inhabitancy of the people as they had lost capacity of survival and were looking for assistance from the outside. Besides disaster prone, people are also deprived of basic amenities like drinking water, education, health and infrastructure in specific of bumpy plains non-melted roads that make the distance quite arduous. Lack of clean drinking water has also compounded their problems.

Keeping in view these conditions, seven villages were selected for the interventions. These villages are Dabla Muhalla and Chashma Goth in Union Council Rehri of Bin Qasim Town, Tikkri Village in Maripur Union Council, Abdul Rehman Village, Abdullah Village , Mubarak Village and Singhu Village. Under the ActionAid project these areas are called development areas (DA).