A few months ago, singer-cum-actor Hadiqa Kiani initiated a charity drive, Vaseela-e-Raah, to extend aid to the people affected by the devastating floods in Pakistan. Taking to the Instagram page of Vaseela-e-Rah, Kiani has now announced that she has completed the construction of 100 houses in Balochistan.
"So grateful that with the help of the people who trusted this campaign, Vaseela-e-Raah, we were able to construct 100 houses in Tamboo Tehsil, Naseerabad district, Balochistan," read the caption of the post.
According to the fundraising profile of Vaseela-e-Raah on GoFundMe, the donation campaign, organised by Shanzeh Aslam, the singer's niece, aims to "collect funds for Hadiqa Kiani's campaign to aid Pakistani flood victims. The mission is to collect $200,000 and build 200 sustainable homes for victims in Balochistan and expand efforts from there to the other cities adopted."
Prior to this, the Hona Tha Pyaar crooner took to Twitter and shared her plans to construct a primary school, grocery store and maternity centre for flood victims. She wrote, "Grateful to share progress! Inshallah we will not only complete our goal of 200 homes but we will also have a Vaseela-e-Raah primary school, grocery store and a maternity center all because of your help and donations."
Grateful to share progress! Inshallah we will not only complete our goal of 200 homes but we will also have a Vaseela-e-Raah primary school, grocery store and a maternity center all because of your help and donations.
— Hadiqa Kiani (@Hadiqa_Kiani) December 26, 2022
By the grace of Allah, we are making record progress. pic.twitter.com/PVRM8ovaPR
In October 2022, Kiani also detailed her experience of having visited flood-hit regions, she urged, “At this point, we need to focus on construction and reconstruction. Right now, they are shelter-less, winter is coming and the water is stagnant. If there are people who can go on the ground and pull out the water somehow, they must do that because it’s spreading a lot of diseases.”
The Dobara actor added, “We are sleeping comfortably in our beds, eating dinner, lunch, doing everything. It doesn’t impact us. But right now, those people don’t even have roofs over their heads, the kids are battling infections — skin infections, stomach infections — the things I’ve seen with my own eyes, I can’t even express.”
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