Numbers Speak Volumes:

- Tharparkar is the most impoverished district of Sindh Pakistan, with the highest infant and children mortality rate in the country.
- For every 1,000 children born 45 to 50 do not survive or 90 to 100 die within their first five years of birth due to malnourishment in expecting women coupled with poor post-natal care.
- This unfortunate crisis has also cost the lives of 479 children and left 22,000 hospitalized due to water borne diseases in 2016.

HHRD’s Projects in Tharparkar:

HHRD has been working in the region providing Emergency Relief since 2014 through our "Thar Pakistan Drought Emergency Relief Fund". This is the 4th consecutive year of drought for the region where limited health care is being provided to its victims.

Water For Life Program:

HHRD intervened with emergency relief efforts in 2014 with provision of food and clean drinking water through trucking and water projects. These water projects have been implemented in four categories including:
- Installation of 40 community Hand Pumps
- Construction of 25 Water Wells
- Installation of 15 Solar Powered Submersible Pumps
- Installation of 2 Submersible Pump with Reverse Osmosis Filtration Units.

After completing 102 Water Projects in Thar between 2014-2016, HHRD at present is not conducting any water projects in the region this year.

Health Care Program:

HHRD adopted some of the operational aspects of the newborn nursery projects at the Mithi Civil Hospital in 2016. Crucial repairs were needed to medical equipment as well as, compensation to retain professionals in the area. As a result HHRD was:
- Featured in a report on BBC Urdu Services highlighting HHRD’s work in the nursery of Civil Hospital, Mithi in 2016
- $10,000 worth of equipment donated to the gynecology and pediatric ward of the hospital
- Qualified medical technician hired to train the hospital staff and local volunteers.
- Provided Mobile Medical Camp which helped 95,000 people with clean water and nutritious food.