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Development & Empowerment Society (DES)

Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan
Joined November 2017

Development & Empowerment Society has been registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 with Government of Sindh



Presence in: Pakistan
Focus: Disability Rights, Education, Gender-based violence, Governance, Accountability & Transparency, Health, Livelihoods, Women's Rights

Introduction and Background

Development & Empowerment Society (DES) is an independent registered non-government and nonprofit civil society organization. Prime motto of DES is capacity building and services delivery to the deprived and marginalized people of the society.

 

In 2015 a group of educated, dynamic and like-minded youth working in the development sector, got together to establish an organization, for addressing the most urgent and pressing needs of the peoples. True to this spirit the organization was named Development & Empowerment Society.

Considering their association with the development sector the group was conscious of the overabundance of problems troubling the development. Consequently, the organization’s focus was not kept limited either in terms of geography or sector. DES has been carrying a range of interventions in the areas of education, health & hygiene, youth & women empowerment, emergency response & preparedness, governance, free legal aid, human rights, etc.

The type of activities undertaken by the organization range from capacity building to service delivery, with focus remaining on the deprived and marginalized segments of the society. Whereas in terms of operations what characterizes DES’s functioning are its efforts to (a) enlist involvement of the locals when initiating activities at the grass root level; and (b) mobilize women for bringing peace, tolerance, and development in society.

Mission Statement

To empower the less-prioritized and marginalized communities/groups through education, awareness raising, capacity building and service delivery, and to help them through self-fulfilled approach to play a constructive role for development of society.

Vision

A self-developed, resilient and just society, free of all kinds of discriminations and human rights violations.