Message from Chairman 

Welcome to the DEAP Development Organization website, and thank you for visiting us online! DEAP works on social development issues, and is a growing civil society organization of Pakistan. DEAP stands for Development through Empowerment, Accountability and Participation, and it is a registered organization under Provisional Registration in terms of Section 6 (b) read with Section 12, 14 & 18 of the Punjab Charities Act, 2018 with Registration No. PB-2106800662893883. DEAP is a true Community Impact organization, reaching out to address critical problems in the communities around us. We work at tackling not just the symptoms, but also the causes in issues related to Education and Health, Women's Empowerment, Community Development and Civic Issues. The objective is to ensure actual measurable and tangible results - yardsticks to gauge our capabilities. DEAP was created by a group of development activists to providing free education facilities to poor children of deserving families in city Chakwal (Punjab province of Pakistan). DEAP has diversified its programmatic work and has grown into a key civil society organization of Pakistan working on Education, Health, Human Rights, Animal and Forest Rights in Pakistan.
Its program coordination office is based in Chakwal and it has been working with self help base and support of well off families of Chakwal. Currently DEAP has been implementing two projects in Chakwal i.e. first is child sponsorship program for poor children of deserving families. DEAP has been providing free copies, stationeries and free evening tuition facility to each sponsor child on monthly basis. We are providing school uniform with shoes to each child on six monthly bases. DEAP also believes that extra curricular activities are necessary for children so it arrange monthly recreational activities at DEAP Academies. Second in health sector, DEAP Physiotherapy center has been providing health facilities to disable children disable male and disable female of district Chakwal.

We are also working for strengthening the devolved structure at district level and are providing support on regular basis for capacity building of local organizations. DEAP believes that development needs integrated approach. If we talk about poverty reduction, or gender and development or sustainable livelihood whatever we say we cannot achieve our goal of having happy and healthy life unless and until we promote integrated approach. In order to have sustainable development we cannot segregate the sectors and their link to support each other. Working in a single sector we may achieve some growth in one of the sector but we can not claim overall sustainable development unless and until we work both at micro and macro levels. This requires restless efforts.

Performance of public, social sector services generally within Pakistan and specifically in Punjab has been extremely poor. Basic services are poorly designed in terms of their outreach to the rural poor and the overall lack of accountability of the system to the poor has left large pockets of population with no drinking water facilities, poor sanitation, low literacy rates and high birth rates adversely affecting community, specially women and children. Pakistan Participatory Poverty Assessment report (DFID, 2001) mentions that the education and health care needs of women appear to be of secondary priority at the household level, the poor access of women to basic services is clear evidence that the government shares responsibility for the perpetuation of discriminatory practices. Within provincial planning cycle, social sector programs are not awarded on a need basis and rural-urban disparities have left rural populations unnerved by basic services. These stark realizations and continuous feedback from the deprived and marginalized communities pushed DEAP to plan and design a developmental program for the social empowerment and uplift of the people of Pakistan.

I hope you will like the website and will inform us about your feedback in the meanwhile.

ATIF ABBAS
Chief Executive, DEAP