Welcome
AHS Foundation
A non profit making charity endeavouring to support life and develop communities to thrive, in remote and detached areas where the infrastructure and resources are non existent to very limited. Our mission started in 2005, soon after the earthquake in Northern Pakistan in the Jhelum Valley adjacent to Himalayan Kashmir.
Earthquake
The incident proved that humanity is common heritage of mankind. It is beyond all divisions. Humanitarians and volunteers from all over the world rushed to rescue the lives devastated by the calamity.
Mission
Along with thousands of others, we reached there, but moved further to the distant area where others couldn’t dare to venture. The area of our activities is still many miles away from the basic facilities like transportation, infrastructure, health-care, education, reasonable shelter, medicine, nutrition, clean water, communication etc.
Humanitarian Services
Since than we are serving the genuine deserving humanity mainly in health, medicine, and occasionally in education and nutrition. Vigo Group sponsors the working staff and the funding from friends provides relief to the resource-less communites.
Delivering Hope
Let’s make life easy for those who have no choice but to compromise with the fate. After all, the life is a single chance for everyone, yet a short time of few decades.
Please donate for the Humanity if you don’t have time to serve. Fund for the life saving projects like health and medicine, or share your grant for education and food.
Urgent Appeal
FUNDS NEEDED
TO PURCHASE ESSENTIAL MEDICAL MACHINERY
ECG — ULTRA SOUND — OXYGEN BOTTLES — DEFIBULATOR — BLOOD ANALYSER
Promulgation
AHS Foundation UK is planning to register its subdivision in Pakistan by involving local volunteers and management in near feature.
In a recent visit, Chairman Nadeem Shah and Director Mohammad Aref met with personage in Pakistan to discuss the possibilities and scope of services. We hope that, soon more people from Pakistan and Kashmir will be on board for improved and extended health services with more health centres in remote communities desperately need vital services to save life.
We are thankful to all participants of the meeting and appreciate their willingness of playing role in the future.
We shall soon update the progress in this regard.
Ramadan Ration Packages.
AHS Founation wishes to deliver ration packages to at least 500 deserving families this year.
Each Package enough for average family of 4 to 6 may cost £ 75 for one month of Ramadan.
An average Ramadan Package consist,
Flour, Rice, Sugar, Cooking Oil, Lentil, Spices, Dates, Salt, Syrup and Gram flour. If you want to contribute please contact us. AHS Foundation voluntarily delivers the package to most deserving short listed families without any service charges.
LATEST NEWS
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Snowfall31/01/2024
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AHS Meeting05/01/2024
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Stock Purchased22/12/2023
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Snowfall of the Season02/12/2023
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Director at BHC10/10/2023
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Director visits Pakistan07/10/2023
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DHO Visits AHS Health Centre.24/09/2023
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Medical Camp22/09/2023
Flood Relief
AHS Foundation contributed hundreds of food packages, tents, blankets, and medicnes to flood hit areas of Swat Northern Area and Dadu Sindh. We are willing to keep playing role as humanitarian with help of our friends and donors.
If you are willing to participate please
Contct: nshah@vigogroup.co.uk
For details please visit | here >>> or | Swat- >>> | Sindh – >>>
Short Clips
UK Doctor’s free medical Camp
UK Doctor’s free medical Camp
Patient at BHC
Thanks to Dr. Muhammad Naseem Sheikh
We are thankful for the voluntarily offered consultation of Dr. M. Naseem Sheikh from Muzaffarabad. Dr. Sheikh is an MBBS (FCPS) Certified in Diabetes (UHS Lahore) – Medical Specialist and an Ex- Registrar Medical Ward – AIMS Muzaffarabad. He is Specialist in : Diabetes, Hypertension, Asthma , cholesterol, Tuberculosis, Blood and Liver Problems.
Dr. Sheikh offers his distant consultation free of cost if and when required for patients with multifarious ailments.
Message
Nadeem Shah
Founder
AHS Foundation
AHS Foundation aims to “Deliver Hope” to under-privileged members of our society in inaccessible areas where other NGOs may not or cannot venture.
Our services are offered totally on humanitarian basis irrespective of colour, cast, creed, ethnicity, region and religion.
In return all we ask for are Prayers and hope for the Blessings of the Almighty
As humans we wish to earn and accumulate sometimes a lot more then we require.
Many of our fellow human being’s desire only a source to survive.
It is only a matter of chance. The difference between “giver and receiver is the mere length of an arm”
Some of us are fortunate to acquire and some aspire for very little, they live a life without much desire.
Those who have must contribute, for those who are destitute.
The Story
The AHS foundation is a charity dedicated to saving lives, improving conditions, and rebuilding communities and infrastructures in areas affected by natural disasters. We are committed to providing training initiatives that empower local communities; thus enabling them to rise out of poverty and despair and once again become a self sustaining and thriving community. Currently we provide vital support to communities devastated by the 2005 Pakistan Earthquake, offering aid for over 12,000 people in the Kashmir region. The village of Noon Bagla is the centre of our training and redevelopment proposals.
It was set up by Nadeem Shah in memory of his late father Ahmed Hassan Shah. Chaired by Nadeem with the aid of a progressive Board of Trustees the Foundation is now actively engaged in fund raising. Nadeem travelled to the devastated area almost immediately after the disastrous earthquake in October 2005. This life-changing experience convinced him of the need to establish the AHS Foundation and to make a permanent and realistic improvement to the lives of the community and people in Noon Bagla, a village left devastated by the earthquake.
Imagine
Muhammad Akbar – A tale of optimism.
Waheed Gilani. 2007
(Muhammad Akbar has passed away few year ago, but he has seen the Hospital in Noon Bagla)
I see many people hanging around the site of the hospital every day. They love to ask questions about the future of the village and construction of the hospital. I am sure they all know that the queries they do have been repeated many times since the start of the work. But still they ask the same questions whenever they get a chance.
“How much the machine is costing you? How long is it going to take? Where the doctors will come from? What kind of building it would be? Where staff will stay? How the market would look like after the completion of the hospital?” And so on.
There questions don’t bother me because I know the reason why they want to talk about the hospital. Indeed they were not expecting such a big project in an isolated area like Noon Bagla. They want to make sure that they are not dreaming. The scars of the earthquake are still very fresh and they remember the screaming of injured women and children. Many of them cannot forget the helplessness, when they were unable to save their members of joint family from extinction, who could survive if there were a medical help available here or nearby. Not a something big or special but only a bandage, or clean cotton wool, an antiseptic ointment or pain killer pills that could relieve many people from suffering for weeks or months long treatment in far distance hospitals. It is therefore they come and ask the same questions everyday. I feel an inner satisfaction when my polite replies sooth them and a hopeful shine appears into their eyes. God know what it will be there tomorrow, but at least we have given optimism to the grieved people who had no charm in the life anymore.
Muhammad Akbar, an old man of 70 plus misses no chance of coming to the site, sitting silently, and watching the excavator machine at site. Then dragging himself to the team of workers. He comes to a temporary hut where the mix tea is available. I also sit there for meeting with the workers and discuss things about work. Muhammad Akbar never misses the meetings. He does not speak even a single word nor would he ask a question. But he would sit there to listen what we speak or interact with operator or contractor etc.
A couple of weeks ago I had a meeting with the constructor who is building the retaining wall along with the road side. I arranged the meeting in rest house lawn to prevent any unnecessary interruption. Five minutes later, Muhammad Akbar appeared from the bushes. “ Tayya ( Elder Uncle) where have you come from?” I inquired.
“I saw you coming here so I followed you” he replied.
“Well we are having
an important meeting here.” I said.
“I am not going to speak or disturb. I shall just listen” He replied.
I smiled and joked “Are you sure you will keep silent?”
“Yes son” he replied.
I noticed his curiosity and offered him a seat nearby.
The tea arrived and I offered him my cup of tea and ordered another for myself.
“Muhammad Akbar Saab I have noticed that you come to the hospital construction site everyday and hang around. Why are you so much interested?” I asked him in a happy tune.
He sipped the tea, looked at me, then he looked on the ground and again at me and said
“Son, I am a setting sun. I am here today and may won’t be here tomorrow. But I am very happy that our coming generations will have a healthy and better life.
Look how many people have died unaided in the earthquake. Who expected that an agony like that will hunt all of us? Think that if there were a hospital, or a doctor here, how many people could be saved who died due to lack of medical help?
Count how many children have died in transit from here to Muzaffarabad? I don’t know whether I shall see this hospital or not but I am sure that the luck of our people is going to change. Nobody gave any heed to this beautiful village. Instead many people have destroyed the natural beauty of our land by chopping and cutting the trees from our forest. What we had has gone now.
This was beyond my imagination that people from England will come here in Noon Bagla and help us. I have seen all the people who have visited here. Why they come here, this far..?
I come to see these great people who are working for humanity. They are sharing our soreness. They travel for days to come here and console us though they have no blood relations here. Yet they want to do so much. I believe that a lot of lives will be protected now and all of us will die, but at ease”
It was a surprise for me that an illiterate old man was speaking like a philosopher. I was staring at him feeling naive before a so-called illiterate but indeed an institute of life experiences. He took few more sips from his cup and started speaking again.
“A lot of people including you might be thinking that I have nothing to do, therefore I come here to kill my time. That is not true. I have no stamina to follow the people all around the village. But I walk with them to the village, and the school or anywhere they go. Just to watch them because they are great people who love humanity. And you too kid, because you are also busy with the people who are changing the destiny of our village. I know you have not done anything for yourself or your family as yet. God will help you. I am proud that you belong to our village and community”
I felt that my eyes were getting moisten because I could not do as much for my people as they think. They consider my humble contribution of merely time, too much because they are deprived people and have nothing much in their life. I was bashful and didn’t want to speak anymore on this topic. In low and meek voice I said:
“Uncle pray for all of those who are struggling to help us and bringing hope in our lives. God willing one day Noon Bagla will be an example for the people of the region”
“Shall I see that day son?” He asked enthusiastically.
“Inshallah (God Willing) you will” I said.
He closed his eyes and raised his hands for prayer.
(This article was written in 2007)
Thoughts
For me working with AHS Foundation revealed the difference between “living and leading” a life. When my 7-bedroom home was destroyed in the earthquake not only did I lose the materialistic things I had collected but also the man who had brought me up.
The loss of my father helped me to see life in a different light.
Living life with materialistic things was not as comforting as I had once thought.
My transition from living to leading was extremely difficult. However, my involvement with the foundation has enabled me understand what life with less materialistic things and lots of love from those who need and deserve our help can offer.
“From my experience I have been fortunate enough to see that inner peace is more soothing than outer comfort”
Waheed Gilani
Project Manager AHS Foundation
People still die but, at least we don’t regret the unaided demise of our loved ones. AHS Foundation gives us hope and a place to turn in times of need. Reaching the most deserving and needy is tangible service and the Foundation has been serving in this remote region for such a long period, is a proof of its commitment to a sincere and selfless humankind service. Previously people of this area had no option but to suffer. Now we have a hope of care, not too far from our reach.
Thanks to contributors and Management of AHS Foundation for this charitable and self-sacrificing provision.
We have nothing to offer in return, but words of thanks, spirits of gratitude, and prayers of blessings for you and your families.
May God Almighty bless you in all aspects of your life.
Shazia
Noon Bagla
Help us to educate distant children
Portfolio
School
With generous help of AAPKI Foundation of Sweden, we supported Village school by building 4 wooden log cabins. Noon Bagla school children were the first to get shelter from climate changes. We are thankful to AAPKI Foundation and Dr. Zahra for the support. AHS Foundation picked a young boy SAAD who just completed his college and was eligible to join private health education institution in Muzaffarabad. We support him for a 2 years Pharmacy Course. After that he will be a big help in the area.
Children Park
In the memory of the 14 Noon Bagla School children who lost their life in earthquake, we built a children play ground with swings, seesaws, and slide in the school area to help children to come out of shock. We try to provide nutritious food to the people during fasting month of Ramadhan and plan to continue it every year.
Rehabilitation
Noon Bagla and its catchment area needed long term support as there was nothing one can call basic facility. The health of people was our priority. We found that there was nothing regarding health, except uneducated and untrained, healers the people rely upon. Countable trained health professionals were available in cities and big towns dozens of miles away. We discussed …… Read more >>