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Article: Pakistan.(MONITORING COUNTRY ACTIVITIES)
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- Arrows For Change
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Shirkat Gah, in collaboration with two organisations, SUNGI Development Foundation and Omar Asghar Khan Foundation (OAKF), from August 2006 has put into operation a UNFPA supported project whereby six 'Women Friendly Spaces' (WFS) with hammams (bathing areas) are being set up for women in earthquake affected areas of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Azad Kashmir. A relatively new concept, it evolved out of the participatory rapid needs assessment carried out in nine relief camps by Shirkat Gah with other organisations in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck the northern areas of Pakistan in October 2005.
No agency until that ...