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Adopt a School — Secure a Future!
‘Adopt a Future’ is now planned as a five-year project that will conclude when these boys finish their...
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Women empowerment for securing sustainable alternative livelihoods
Disaster affected populations have identified livelihoods as their greatest recovery priority
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Café Book Lounge — Promoting heritage conservation and adaptive reuse
Through intelligent adaptive reuse, certain spaces can be converted into iconic and functional public spaces
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Citizens Against Weapons — campaigning for a peaceful city
Karachi has experienced more deaths caused by acts of violence and use of weapons than any other city in Pakistan
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The Learning Garden: seeding the city’s future conservationists
The Green Schools Programme of Organic City is designed to be piloted in a traditional school set-up in Karachi
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Preserving Karachi’s architectural history
For things to improve, efforts have to be initiated on a number of fronts
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A vision to reclaim the streets of Karachi
There is a need to revive Karachi's street culture and reclaim places of great historical value
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The lost dream of developing Karachi’s coastline
In 1990, the Karachi Coastal Recreation Development Plan 1990-2000 was prepared
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The nexus of ill-planned growth and heatwave devastation
Higher temperatures were documented in Sukkur and Jacobabad as well but over 90 per cent of deaths occurred in Karachi
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Better policing for more vibrant cities
Although government has failed to initiate needed reforms, citizen groups have decided to help improve matters