The National Youth Assembly (NYA) has initiated many projects including establishment of orphans’ homes, IT literacy centers, dispensaries and food for the poor in remote areas of the country. National Youth Assembly President Hanan Ali Abbasi, while talking to APP, said the NYA had fed 150,000 underprivileged people from 19 districts of the country by providing food staples under the 1st phase of its nationwide campaign, HOPE. This youth campaign can be termed one of the unique, self-dependent philanthropic activities at national level carried out by the self-reliant youth-oriented organisation by using their own resources. This campaign is mostly carried out at hospitals, bus terminals and ignored areas of the country. Food ration packages respectively, for one month, fifteen days, and one week are also distributed among more than 600 poor families. Approximately 100 volunteers including national/international achievers who are also members of NYA like Aamir Atlas Khan, Ibrahim Shahid, Malala Yousafzai, Sharam Changezi, Yasir Butt, Saeeda Mir, etc. had also actively participated in this campaign.
The HOPE campaign reached out to the poor residence of districts Islamabad, Peshawar, Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, Chakwal, Charsada, Murree, Faisalabad, Swabi, Abbottabad, Haripur, Bagh, Mardan, Sialkot and Gujranwala. The members of the NYA set a new example by collecting donations with their own efforts and sources up to Rs 5 million in order to back the countrywide campaign.
