Success Story 1... Muhammad Bashir  

Name: Mr. Muhammad Bashir

Age:    43

Location: Chakwal

Project: Scottish Livelihood Resource Centre, Islamabad.

Organization: Leonard Cheshire Disability & Development Program-Pakistan.

 Description of case study (including background information and key facts):

Muhammad Bashir is physically challenged individual. He has been suffering Mobility-Moving Disability like Muscular dystrophy. He has been suffering in this disability since last 20 years. He did a lot of treatment but he could not return in his previous life. He is very hardworking and brave man. He has been doing service from very first day of disability. He has worked as employee in different Public call office in chakwal city. He pays his duty on counter of PCO and he attends each and every type of customer. He lives in relative home and he pay rent to his relative. He is a single person and he could not do marriage due to his disability.

 Type of disability (and how this was acquired, if appropriate): 

He has been suffering Mobility-Moving Disability like Muscular dystrophy since last 20 years. He cannot walk properly. He walks with stick and he goes to shop and home with the support of any person.

 How has this impacted on opportunity to gain a livelihood?

He cannot walk properly but he did not like begging. He goes to shop on motor bike rakshah. He has been running his shop in bus stand now. Although PCO work has been down now a days but he did not want to take any amount from any one. He thought different ideas but he could not implement on it due to his disability. So he decided to take mobile cards of each company so that he could get extra income for meet monthly expenses. According to Bashir, mobile cards of amount 5000 Rs will increase 20 % his monthly income and it will be better earning to him. He decided to take mobile cards of each company so that his family could not suffer more.

 How has LRC supported?  

Mr. Bashir had contacted with DEAP Development Organization Chakwal some month ago and he shared his less earning issue with DEAP staff. DEAP is civil society organization working on Education, Health, Human Rights, Water & Sanitation and Animal & Forest Rights in Chakwal. DEAP has established physiotherapy center also for treatment of disable persons of Chakwal. DEAP has its own child sponsorship program to support poor, needy, orphan but intelligent students of Govt. Schools. All sponsor children are getting free copies, stationaries on monthly basis and free uniform on biannual basis. Three DEAP academies are providing free evening tuition to all sponsor children at evening time.
DEAP and LCD Islamabad are working with mutual understanding in Chakwal. LRC found Mr. Bashir quite concerned about his economical instability. He requested LRC to provide 5000 PKR on credit to purchase the mobile cards from franchises of different companies. LRC provided him with requested finance and build his financial
capacity to make payment for new business. Now he is happy because his daily sale has been increased. He will reimburse the loan in installments.
 

 Any other information:

Mr. Bashir has also started to charge cell phone on commercial basis. He take amount from customer for charging each cell phone. He has increased his income in this way.

 Quote from Beneficiary:  

I pay thanks to Allah and LRC, which provided me with the money on the right time and rescued me from this difficult situation. He says a disable man can also live a normal life if he do efforts and leave the results on Allah.
Mr. Chaudhary Muhammad Mushtaq manager of Bus stand says that Muhammad Bashir is really a hard worker man and I am really inspired with him. He is very punctual, come timely on shop, pay his duty very honestly. Allah blesses him always. Ameen