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IET recently concluded a skills training for representatives of the Production Centres part of the LEED Program, PPAF. HKM (Hunar Ki Manzil) is a purely Handicrafts Based training , which offers extensive training covering Skill Enhancement, and Market Exposure. It aims to create employment opportunities for the traditional craftspeople (mostly women) living below the poverty line. HKM hopes to reinvent local craft and introduce a modernised version to the world, something which is being greatly appreciated and is in demand. Through

CEO of IET, delivered a well-attended talk ‘Development with Dignity: The Trickle-Up Effect’ at Habib University. He shared his experiences in the area of sustainable development and his approach in uplifting neglected communities in Pakistan. During his talk, he discussed the various projects undertaken by IET, explaining how it enables development by focusing on the underlying issues of socio-economic disadvantage. He took the audience through the different projects undertaken by IET, and urged Habib University’s students and faculty to join in,

If anyone asks you to get up at 6am or something on a Sunday morning and cycle at 7.30 am, what would you do? I would think twice. However on 27th March 2016 7.30am a group of committed bikers of Critical Mass Karachi rode to show their support for Indus Earth Trust and help us raise funds. 40 odd Bikers, young and old, women men and children, set of from Seaview, Karachi, to help raise funds for IET to enable it to

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For the underprivileged living in Shah Rasool Colony-Karachi Ramzan is not necessarily a blessing. It is a time when prices sky rocket, with vegetables and daily use items being sold at the atrocious rates, (tomatoes 80/kg, daal chana 170 per kg as of 15th June and so). Shah Rasool colony is a new area for IET, where it has recently planned interventions in the areas of Health and Sanitation (under program area Water and CPI). As is the way of IET,

Institutional Development – ID program is one on the major building blocks of IET’s approach towards development. All development interventions are preceded by mobilization and organization of communities. The case of Khursheeda Iqbal serves to highlight the positive ownership and self help that such a process inculcates in beneficiaries. Fondly known as NGO aunty in the mohalla(neighbourhood), Khursheeda takes ownership of development for self and the community. Khursheeda has achieved many goals but perhaps the most commendable is Khursheeda’s replication