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Across Pakistan, rising food and fuel prices are squeezing household budgets just as families prepare for Ramadan, making it difficult to secure consistent, nutritious suhoor and iftar meals. In arid districts and urban informal settlements, limited refrigeration, clean water, and safe cooking fuel undermine food safety and dietary diversity.
Crowded markets and strained public services further limit access to fresh produce and protein. Without timely, dignified assistance, vulnerable households—especially those with children, older adults, and people with chronic illness—face meal skipping, debt, and reliance on low-nutrient foods during a month centered on dignity and community.
Support must be timely, culturally appropriate, and market-aware—pairing food assistance with safe delivery and simple feedback mechanisms to reach high-need neighborhoods without distorting local supply.
Culturally appropriate assistance: Provide halal food baskets or e-vouchers timed for suhoor/iftar that include staples, protein, dates, oil, and fresh produce, with options for special diets.
Safe, orderly distribution: Use verified lists, scheduled pickups, accessible sites, and limited home delivery for homebound households to reduce queues and protection risks.
Vendor partnerships & mobile money: Where markets function, redeem assistance through vetted shops and digital payments to support local economies and keep logistics efficient and transparent.
About 37 percent of the rural population in Sindh lives below the poverty line. Poverty rates are higher in flood-affected districts, which also experience some of the country’s highest stunting rates. The high prevalence of poverty, as much as 40-60 percent in certain districts, further exacerbates vulnerability and constrains opportunities.
The floods, which occurred in the region in the recent past, have caused significant damage to homes and livelihoods in district Mirpur Khas, leaving many families in the district struggling to access basic necessities such as food.
This project will address food insecurity through distribution of food packs to poor families affected by floods in District Mirpur Khas of Sindh, Pakistan. The food packs will contain essential food items such as flour 40kg, cooking oil 3 liter, Basmati rice 5kg, Sugar 3kg, Daal Moong 2kg, Daal Chana 2kg, Tea 350g, red chili powder 1 pack, iodised salt 1 pack, Jam-e-Shirin 1 bottle, and dates 2kg.
Project Outputs:
● 450 poor households get food support.
● Over 2,250 persons including women and children are protected from hunger.
● Over 60 kgs of food basket for each family sufficient for one month
Dr. Yahya Hendi is the Director for Muslim Life. He has been at Georgetown for 25 years and was the first Muslim chaplain to be hired full-time by an American university. Imam Hendi is a Public Policy Conflict Resolution Fellow at the Center for Dispute Resolution at the University of Maryland School of Law and the Maryland Judiciary’s Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office. Imam Hendi is the founder and president of Clergy Beyond Borders. He also serves as a member of the Islamic Jurisprudence Council of North America. Imam has served as an adjunct faculty member for Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Osher’s Lifelong Learning Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Fordham University, and Hartford Seminary. Imam Hendi also taught the course Inter-religious Encounters at Georgetown University. He is passionate about environmental responsibility, racial justice, eliminating poverty, fighting against the growing sense of militarism, and empowering Muslims to reform the way they practice and understand Islam. When Imam Hendi is not talking about these topics with students, you’ll find him in the kitchen cooking Maqloobah or his other favorite dishes, grilled chicken, rice, and hummus.
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