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While this initiative is relatively new as the project only started in 2009, it urgently needs to expand further to provide housing to a larger number of people. It is also concerning that of all the sweet homes, there are only two in Balochistan — one in Quetta and one in Zhob — and a mere five in all of Sindh. Meanwhile in orphanages run by charities, more often than not children are kept in dismal conditions because there is barely any monitoring by the government of living conditions in such facilities. In the wake of national disasters such as the 2005 earthquake and earthquakes in Balochistan in later years, the 2010 floods as well as incidents of terrorism, the need for better welfare facilities for children has really magnified. As a signatory to the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Pakistan also has treaty obligations to protect children’s rights. Pakistan must provide safe spaces for children and not let them spend their childhood on a waiting list.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 17th, 2017.
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