Swat Relief Initiative
Swat Relief Initiative is unique because we have several practices that ensure that our work is effective:
• We pledge that 100% of all donations will go directly to helping improve the lives of the poor in Swat. We maximize the effectiveness of donated funds by maintaining an all-volunteer workforce and by financing all overhead (such as transportation and advertising costs) from the personal funds of the founding members.
• Targeted aid – Most NGOs give aid to those who most aggressively seek it. However, our volunteers go door to door identifying the people who have the greatest need, and we target our aid to those people, whether or not they are able to come to us.
• Ethical Standards – We take ethics very seriously, and we have a zero-tolerance policy for corruption. We monitor and scrutinize all funds and supplies to make sure that they reach the people for whom they are meant.
• Community Mobilization – We encourage communities to help their own people so that instead of making our aid targets dependent on handouts, they learn the skills required to take their future into their own hands.
• SRI’s President, Zebu Jilani, spends 3 to 4 months of the year in Swat to personally supervise all our programs, and travels extensively to all the villages we work in to monitor our activities.
• We pledge that 100% of all donations will go directly to helping improve the lives of the poor in Swat. We maximize the effectiveness of donated funds by maintaining an all-volunteer workforce and by financing all overhead (such as transportation and advertising costs) from the personal funds of the founding members.
• Targeted aid – Most NGOs give aid to those who most aggressively seek it. However, our volunteers go door to door identifying the people who have the greatest need, and we target our aid to those people, whether or not they are able to come to us.
• Ethical Standards – We take ethics very seriously, and we have a zero-tolerance policy for corruption. We monitor and scrutinize all funds and supplies to make sure that they reach the people for whom they are meant.
• Community Mobilization – We encourage communities to help their own people so that instead of making our aid targets dependent on handouts, they learn the skills required to take their future into their own hands.
• SRI’s President, Zebu Jilani, spends 3 to 4 months of the year in Swat to personally supervise all our programs, and travels extensively to all the villages we work in to monitor our activities.