Aghaaz: A vision to see Change!
It’s about our motive which we decided to pursue as our Mega Project.
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful”. Malala Yousafzai
Human Rights
Human rights are standards that allow all people to live with dignity, freedom, equality, justice, and peace. These are guaranteed for everyone without any distinction.
Human Rights situation in Pakistan
The current situation of Pakistan is unfortunately not very good. There is violation of laws. Nepotism is at its peak. Rape and honor killings are increasing day by day, corruption is demolishing our system and access to Justice isn’t easy. All of it will lead to our demise.
Our Motive
- We want to create awareness on the hot issues in Pakistan.
- We want all the citizens to know about their basic rights.
- We want easy access to Justice.
- We want everyone to take well informed decisions.
- We want victims to know what to do next.
- We want that every citizen says no to violation of Human Rights.
Our Plan of Action
We started with a social media page (Facebook). We started creating awareness through our posts.
Our secondary source was through blogs and write-ups on different online platforms and designing our own brochures to help create awareness.
We also did live sessions on Facebook page to create awareness on Child Abuse with Mrs. Zainab Naqvi Assistant Commissioner KP (LLB, Previously Advocate High Court Peshawar).
Goals
Our target audience is vast and we are building our way through with every passing day. We are happy to see our progress on Facebook as we have more than 170 followers and increasing. We hope we’ll have a positive response in the future.
We have created a team along with our guest speakers whom we approached through our network and they are willing to work with us every weekend on online sessions.
Apart from that, we are connecting to other practicing advocates as well who can give us advice for our future programs and help us in our motive.
Challenges
- We faced many challenges and the first one was our own studies. Lockdown had affected all of us and after lockdown was lifted some of our fellows had their respective Universities and the burden on them was quite a lot. But we managed and decided to work daily and show commitment to our motive.
- The second one was about convincing people to follow us and to get themselves involved with us during our online sessions. It was a tough job but we think it will work out with time. We only managed to get 15 viewers in our first online session but we hope after some good advertisement next time, we will get a significant increase in the number of viewers.
- Third challenge was “less time” as we had to change our first project idea so it was a tough job for us but our teamwork pulled it off and we successfully completed our first section.
Impact
We are doing our best to provide best much needed information to our followers and we are hopeful that they will find it handy in case of emergency. We have a significant reach from our followers and hope to serve our audience with all our might.
People have really appreciated us on taking this step and they were really happy to see the current situations being addressed to them. They said it was easy for them to listen to the much needed topics. They said they will be looking forward to more of our programs and then apply them in their lives and even spreading our message.
Future Programs
We have decided to continue this project as we have a good enthusiastic team and we have managed to get good guest speakers through our network who are willing to help us with our project.
Our future programs include online sessions every weekend. Continuous posts on Facebook page. Every week blogs will be shared to our page on the recent situation in the country.
We are in touch with other professional bodies (Jhang Bar council and Lahore High court Bar) to work and collaborate with us; and get ourselves registered. We want to join with a legal advisory team so that we can refer our audience to them and help them in any way we can.
In the end, I’m really thankful to members of Circle 1. It was all possible due to your determination and urge to help everyone.
Members:
Syeda Zahra Naqvi, Kainat Saif, Mehlayl Tariq, Muhammad Usman Bashir, Nawaz Farid and Muhammad Khalid Ali.
