FOOD SUPPORT PROGRAMS ( FSP )

Burj Food Programs is a thriving, welcoming service where food builds health, skills and community. Burj Food Supports is a Burj Foundation Unique service that provides monthly (Grocery) items to the low-income families who are having low income and due to this they are forcibly purchased (Grocery) 
items on a daily basis due to low income. Or a privileged family who gathered on a monthly basis in food is not borrowed, given that the organization will provide food convenient monthly installments. These days the prices of basic needs such as home kitchen are very hard to meet. 
Most people borrow food from tenants on a monthly basis are willing to lend. But the shopkeeper does not give food to every customer on credit.
If the dealer does food have to lend money to a certain extent so. Sometimes the kitchen does not meet the requirements. Since most of our society is either income or salary day, because not everyone would be doing business. Source of income for most people working in these communities depend on.
Due to the limited source of income, most people are taking food on a daily basis, because shopkeeper would not give them food on credit.
In this difficult time Burj Foundation introducing a very special and unique service for its members, in which member’s kitchen responsibility will be the responsibility of the organization; organization will provide monthly food in the form of credit and recovered in easy of 2 instalments.

According to the United Nation’s World Food Programme, 49% of Pakistanis rely on food assistance. Households in the lowest wealth quintile spend up to 60% of their household incomes on food and just under half of the population is estimated to be food insecure.

At BF we make an effort to alleviate hunger on a daily basis through our Food Support Programs and Hunger Relief.

In our FSP Program we identify widows and senior citizens who are financially burdened and Disbursement  packages to them on a monthly basis.

Each package costs us PKR 2,000 (USD 20) and consists of:

• Oil / Ghee

• Sugar

• Rice

• Red Chilli Powder

• Masla

• Salt

• Tea

• All Daal

A thorough investigation of each applicant is conducted prior to his / her approval.

Report of WFP - Foundation

1. 20 million affected by the floods
The Pakistan floods this summer impacted the lives and livelihoods of some 20 million people, around 10 million of whom required emergency food assistance.

2. Nearly one in two Pakistanis at risk
Pakistan suffered from widespread hunger even before the monsoon floods, with an estimated 82.6 million people – a little less than half the population – estimated to be food insecure.

3. Widespread poverty
An estimated 36 percent of Pakistanis live below the poverty line and almost half are illiterate. Poorer households typically spend over 60 percent of their income on food.

4. Poor sanitation
50 percent of all Pakistanis have little or no access to clean toilets and drinking water, a condition that renders them vulnerable to infectious diseases.

5. Child mortality
The biggest killers of children under five in Pakistan are diarrhea and acute respiratory infections. Undernourishment is an underlying cause in 38 percent of those cases.

6. Violent conflict 
Conflict along Pakistan’s northwestern border with Afghanistan has forced millions of people to flee their homes. Since 2008, WFP has provided over 2.6 million of them with food assistance.

7. Rising hunger
Volatile food prices over the past seven years have pushed the number of people who depend on food assistance in Pakistan from 38 percent of the population in 2003 to 49 percent in 2009.

8. Wheat dependent
Wheat is Pakistan’s main staple crop and most important source of calories. As a result of the flooding, which submerged around 16 percent of all arable land in Pakistan, the upcoming wheat harvest is expected to be around 15 percent smaller than usual.