A volunteer handing a ration bag to an elderly man outside his home in a Pakistani neighbourhood
Our Work

Food Support

غذائی امداد

Food insecurity in Pakistan is rarely constant. It arrives with a lost job, a medical bill, a death in the family, a flood, or simply a month when prices moved faster than wages. Our food support is built around those months.

What this programme covers

  • Monthly household ration packages
  • Ramadan ration and iftar support
  • Emergency food relief
  • Support for widows and elderly residents
  • Seasonal assistance during winter

Approach

Rations, not handouts

A ration package is assembled around what a household actually cooks — flour, rice, pulses, oil, tea, sugar — in quantities that carry a family through a month rather than a meal. Distribution happens quietly, close to home, and without an audience.

Ramadan and the months around it

Demand rises sharply through Ramadan and again before Eid, when families are expected to provide more at exactly the point their budgets are tightest. We plan for that surge in advance rather than responding to it late.

When something goes wrong

Floods, displacement and sudden loss of income call for food that arrives in days, not weeks. Emergency relief runs on a shorter, simpler process than our regular ration support.

A volunteer handing a ration bag to an elderly man outside his home in a Pakistani neighbourhood

Scope

What this programme does not do

Food support at community level cannot replace a functioning public system, and we do not present it as though it could. Where a household needs something beyond what this programme covers, our role is to say so and help them reach the service that can.

Specific project names, locations and figures for this programme will be published on the Impact page once they have been confirmed from our own records.

Support our food support work

Donations can be directed to food support specifically, or left general so they can go where the need is greatest that month.