Food Distribution
Monthly ration packs and fresh food parcels for households that cannot cover a full month of meals.
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Our impact
What your giving has done
Figures are reviewed monthly and only published once they can be evidenced from distribution records.
- 2,840
- Families helped
- 36
- Projects completed
- 150
- Active volunteers
- 410,000+
- Meals served
Who we are
Relief that reaches, accounted for in public
SMEC Charity and Foundation is a volunteer-led welfare organisation working in Pakistan. We started the way most small charities start: a group of people who knew which families in their own neighbourhood were struggling, and who decided that knowing was not enough.
We are deliberately small and deliberately local. We do not run an office in one city and distribute in another. Our volunteers are from the areas they serve, so verification is a conversation rather than a form, and aid arrives in days.
What we do
Our areas of work
Education Support
School fees, uniforms, books and transport for children at risk of being pulled out of school.
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Monthly sponsorship covering food, schooling, clothing and healthcare for orphaned children within their own families.
Learn moreMedical Assistance
Consultations, medicines, diagnostic tests and surgery costs for patients who would otherwise go untreated.
Learn moreEmergency Relief
Rapid response after floods, earthquakes and displacement — shelter, clean water, food and winter supplies.
Learn moreRamadan & Qurbani
Seasonal ration packs, daily iftar, and Qurbani meat distributed fresh to families who rarely eat it.
Learn moreTechnical Training & Test Center
Free trade training for young people who cannot pay for it — welding, pipe fitting, structure work and heavy-machinery operation,…
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Free technical training
A trade, taught free, on real equipment
Free trade training for young people who cannot pay for it — welding, pipe fitting, structure work and heavy-machinery operation, at Quaidabad.
- Welding
- Pipe fitting
- Structure work
- Civil work
- Loader operator
- Skid steer operator
- Mobile crane operator
Featured causes
Appeals open right now
Each one is costed, funded openly, and reported on when it closes.
- Ongoing
Quaidabad
Ration distribution
Monthly ration packs delivered to families living and working around the brick kilns.
- Ongoing
Quaidabad
School supplies for children
Notebooks, stationery and uniforms for children at risk of leaving school over small costs.
- Ongoing
Quaidabad
Medical aid and mobility
Medicines, treatment costs and wheelchairs for people who would otherwise go without.
Evidence
What changed for someone
I had told them they would go back when things improved. I did not really believe it.
A term that was nearly the last
Three sisters had stopped attending school in October. Clearing one term of arrears brought all three back before the place was lost.
Parent · Education support recipient · Lahore District
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The clinic was two hours away
A diagnosed condition went untreated for a year — not for lack of a diagnosis, but because the follow-up cost a day's wages every month.
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Thirty days, planned in advance
A Ramadan pack delivered the week before the month began, rather than partway through it.
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Get involved
More than one way to help
Donate
Give once or monthly. Every programme publishes what an amount actually buys before you give.
Give nowVolunteer
We work through people who already live in the areas we serve. Distribution, verification, camps.
Join usPartner
Corporate CSR, schools, hospitals and suppliers. Tell us what you can contribute.
Talk to usSponsor an orphan
A monthly commitment that keeps a child fed, in school and cared for within their own family.
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Ask us anything before you give
We would rather answer a hard question than take a donation from someone who is unsure. Call, email, or send a message and we will reply within two working days.