Rajanpur , 21 March 2012 -
AlKhidmat Rajanpur, Punjab Province, has given out 5 wheelchairs to physically challenged people. The wheelchairs had been donated to AlKhidmat Punjab by Free Wheelchair Mission, USA, and were forwarded to AlKhidmat Rajanpur for distribution among physically challenged people who had, until then, been forced to move around in great difficulty without wheelchairs.
The Free Wheelchair distribution ceremony was attended by Advocate Muhammad Rafi Pachar and Mian Irfan Khalid, President and Gen. Sec. AlKhidmat Foundation Rajanpur, respectively.

Lahore , 18 March 2012 -
An eleven-member group of Japanese students from Saitama University visited the Head Office of AlKhidmat Foundation Pakistan. The students are on a study tour of Pakistan accompanied by their teacher Prof. Kawamato, and had visited various AlKhidmat humanitarian projects a day earlier.
The students were given a presentation by AlKhidmat office bearers and staff regarding various humanitarian projects that have been undertaken by AlKhidmat over the years, along with those which have been completed with the collaboration of the Government of Japan. They were also presented with Pakistani souvenirs.
These joint projects include 14 water filtration plants donated by the Government of Japan, seven of which have been installed in the Sindh province and an equal number in the Punjab province, as well as material aid worth US $ 0.4 Million, given as food rations, medical equipment and medicines, and tents, for flood affected people of Charsadda area, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
In turn, the students thanked AlKhidmat for the two-member team which had visited Japan after the terrible tsunami and provided assistance with the collaboration of Islamic Circle of Japan for affected people in the Fukushima, Miyagi, and other prefectures of Japan.

LAHORE: 17th, March

An eleven-member group of Japanese students from Saitama University led by Prof. Kawamato visited the Kot Lakhpat area of Lahore to observe various AlKhidmat projects in action.

The students visited the following five projects:

Fazl-e-Noor School, which boasts of 633 students, offers classes from Pre-Nursery up to Matriculation level, and charges 60% less in fees than other schools of the area;

Nani Maria Vocational Center for women, which has 20 students and two instructors, and imparts various skills to students for a minimal fee of rupees 250/- only;

Baby Day Care Center for working parents, where each baby-sitter looks after 23 children at a nominal fee of rupees 500/- per child;

Al-Badr Dispensary, where approximately 150 patients benefit from the dispensary’s services at a negligible token fee of rupees 20/- per patient only. Apart from the usual lab equipment, the dispensary is also equipped with an ultrasound machine. It has two lady doctors assisted by eight paramedical staff.

The students also visited a water filtration plant, installed with the assistance of the Japanese government, which provides clean drinking water to residents of the area free of cost.

MANSEHRA, 10th March
A Diagnostic Laboratory offering the latest services with state of the art equipment has been set up by AlKhidmat Foundation Pakistan on Abbottabad Road in the Chanai area of Mansehra, with the generous collaboration of Charity Australia.
This is the first laboratory in the area which will provide services round the clock and will serve an extended area with collection centers in Kohistan, Shangla, Battagram, and Balakot, saving people the time and resources to travel to Mansehra. The lab is fully equipped to carry out more than 150 types of tests related to hematology, biochemistry, immunology, microbiology, clinical pathology, molecular diagnostics, TCR, etc.
The people of the area are extremely pleased at the establishment of the diagnostic lab in their area as they earlier had to travel all the way to Abbottabad for lab tests to be carried out, while having to make an additional trip to pick up the test reports. The lab also has a 24 hour blood bank which provides blood on an exchange basis whenever needed.
The laboratory goes a step further in serving clients by sending them an SMS alert when their diagnostic report is ready for collection. Moreover, the lab is offering a 25% general discount to clients, as well as giving a out additional discounts to deserving people, including free tests.