Reuters AlertNet - PAKISTAN: Charitable donations needed for social development: "PAKISTAN: Charitable donations needed for social development
17 Nov 2004 14:36:12 GMT
Source: IRIN
ISLAMABAD, 17 November (IRIN) - Philanthropic organisations in Pakistan are calling on civil society to help channel charitable donations towards sustainable social development initiatives and so reduce the country's dependence on foreign aid.
'Having an Islamic and charitable instinct, we make many philanthropic contributions but we don't have much visible impact, mainly because people are not giving in an institutionalised and organised way, instead a personal approach of giving directly to needy persons has flourished,' Ali Raza, a programme manager at Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP), told IRIN in the capital, Islamabad. "
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