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Conservation For Life (Pictures Credit BBC, Jeff Wilson & Jameel Ahmad) |
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WDS is in the process of launching Conservation For Life. The Snow Leopard and all the animals that live in the Snow Leopard corridor are the focus of our work.
The only way to protect these animals is to empower the locals who live on the front lines with these animals.
Our project is looking to better the quality of life for the people and communities that can and do impact on all the anima ... |
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WDS established 4 nurseries in the Broghil valley starting in 2008/9. We are very pleased with the positive results from all these nurseries.
In 2010 we established 3 new nurseries and expanded 2 of the older ones. Over 20000 trees were planted this year. The best results have been from the Poplars, Salix and Birch. Junipers refuse to grow "in captivity".
We have also had good results from ... |
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One of the things missing in the higher altitudes is fish!
WDS has funded and created the first high altitude fish nursery at Kishmanja. The aim of this nursery is two fold: 1. To offer the locals a new food and nutrition option and 2. To allow fish to be carried from this (end of the jeep track) location to other nurseries or farms further up the valley.
If successful, this project will all ... |
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Our priorities are driven by the communities, most identified by them but WDS also offers options. Sometimes our offers seem so alien, that we have to teach the locals that they have choices.
Our task is difficult and that is exactly why we have selected and started from a community that is very remote. A community that is 2000 strong living in a vast area of natural beauty and history.
The ... |
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The mountains are breathtaking, the vistas magnificent and the places magical! However access in heaven is not simple at best of times.
WDS has walked the paths and experienced the difficulties the locals face, especially the children and the elderly.
One cannot imagine their six year old walking 3 kilometers to school over icy streams that have no proper bridges or paths that are prone to l ... |
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There are currently 140 boys in primary schools and only 18 girls. 169 children between the ages of 5 and 10 (83 Boys and 86 Girls) do not go to school because their parents cannot afford the books and the school fees. In some case the children do not have proper shoes and clothes.
WDS has had the first ever in-depth population survey completed so that we could identify the ultra poor families. ... |
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Living in remote high altitude hamlets is hard enough but poor construction means that almost every home is plagued with leaking roofs, rising damp, poor ventilation and insulation.
WDS has been consulting with the locals and we have agreed to provide short term help to the whole village of Chikar (22 houses) by providing polythene sheets so that the immediate problem of leaking roofs could be ... |
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WDS tries to concentrate on developing basic skills, especially for women where possible. WDS funded a women's social group in the Shimshal Valley in 2009. This group of women was provided with Sewing machines and a trainer.
The same project is now being duplicated in Broghil for the year 2010. 10 Sewing machines and supplies shall be distributed in two hamlets and a trainer shall be provided t ... |
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WDS provided Thuraya Satellite phones to two communities in the Snow Leopard corridor. These phones allow the locals to communicate with the outside world in case of emergencies.
The locals buy scratch cards from their own funds and use this pay as you go service.
WDS hopes to provide further phones in 2011 to two further communities. |
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Trees For Life is an innovative and long term sustainable project that has taken us over 10 years of practical effort to develop and launch.
After spending years in the field, exploring and working informally with remote communities, we have developed a simple but effective project that is positive, non political and non invasive. It allows us to demonstrate the simple but long term benefits of ... |
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United Nations Development Program: Climate Change 2010 |
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http://sgp.undp.org/web/projects/15506/climate_change_averting_disaster.html
UNDP has funded the first Climate Change documentary in Pakistan. The documentary is part of an awareness program that aims to inform and highlight issues in Pakistan and how remote communities are already facing the challenges this global threat poses. |
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WDS Shimshal Valley Plantation and Community Support (2007 - 2009) |
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WDS has been active in the Shimshal valley since 2005 indirectly, by training the high altitude mountain guides for the 2005 Quake Jumper Project and then from 2007 in tree plantations.
In 2007 WDS also launched a program to provide support to the community by supplying Satellite Phone communication (as no form of communication with the outside world exists to date) as well as portable generato ... |
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United Nations Development Program: UCH Sharif - Saving the City of the Saints (2006 - 2007) |
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UNDP funded this documentary to create awareness about this particular heritage and the influence it has had on the culture of the area. A past, present and future insight into this beautiful treasure.
WDS researched and produced this documentary as part of the Small Grants Program. |
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Karambar Valley: Juniper and Birch Forest (2004 - 2008) |
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WDS funded and supported an interim forest protection program and provided the seed money to hire locals to look after a very old junper and birch forest in the very remote Karambar valley in GIlgit - Baltistan region of northern Pakistan.
The WDS intervention and awareness also allowed the local communities to keep an eye on each other and thus reducing the impact on the forest depletion throu ... |
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Taunsa Barrage Mohannas (Boat People) (2005) |
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Mohannas have shared the Indus RIver system with the INdus Blind Dolphins for generations. They live in harmony now, thanks to awareness and understanding created by UNDP and other organizations.
WDS funded a boat for the local community to be able to create a revenue stream which would be used to educate the local children.
WDS also funded a months worth of rations for a community of Mohann ... |
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United Nations Development Program: The Indus Blind Dolphin (2005 - 2007) |
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UNDP funded WDS to research and develop a documentary on the endangered Indus Blind Dolphin. This documentary is a very good source of information and helped create awareness about this unique and fragile creature as well as the people who share its habitat. |
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UNWFP: WDS Quake Jumpers. 2005 Pakistan Earthquake |
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http://www.wfp.org/videos/pakistan-quake-jumpers-0?page=6
WDS developed, trained and deployed the Quake Jumpers, a team of mountain rescue and response specialists to reach those isolated communities that were not being reached by the main stream rescue and response effort.
The Quake Jumpers reached over 140000 people in their 3 month deployment and provided these communities with over 10 ... |
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