A Meeting Place on the Web Provides Support for Dairy and Bakery Projects to Supply School Children in Pakistan

May 23, 2005 -- The dairy project is the vision of Mahnaz Malik, a young Pakistani lawyer, The project aims to provide urban consumers in Karachi, particularly school children, with high quality and hygienic milk at competitive rates. As the project will obtain milk from rural farmers, it will reduce poverty and rural-urban migration as well as contributing to childrens healthy growth. Similar motivation drives the Bakery project which is running in parallel. Mahnaz realised that there were a lot of technical and managerial inputs required to make her vision a reality. She turned to Newtraid.org to find volunteers who could help by supporting the project with their skills and knowledge. As she said "I know there are a lot of good people out there who would want to help, but I need to contact them!"

Newtraid.org is the brainchild of Norman Martin, a retired engineer based in Southampton UK and is a "virtual" Meeting Place where volunteers can meet potential clients to provide support to organisations and groups that cannot afford commercial based consultancy. If the development of enterprise will bring rewards to it's local community in terms of jobs, health or improved environment then Newtraid will help.

The majority of requests for support are coming from the developing world and the emergent countries of Eastern Europe but Newtraid will provide advisers to support to any enterprise seeking to fill the needs of their communities.

Volunteers come from all sections of the community in many countries. There are the under utilised, people between jobs, early retirees, senior citizens and those just willing to give some of their spare time. Newtraid.org gives everybody the chance to volunteer and needs almost all technical, managerial and manual skills and experience to respond to requests for help. Newtraid says that whatever your life skills someone can benefit.

These typical quotes demonstrate the variety of support we get from Volunteers:- "Designer and maker of high quality furniture, currently working as designer of mobility aids such as wheelchairs and trikes. Happy to help." GB Australia "I don't know if I can be of any help, but it never hurts to ask!"KD England UK "Would be keen to use my transferable skills to support clients working in developing countries." J.D United States "Rural development studies among others should be of interest to you," AK Kenya.

The project in Pakistan demonstrates that there is a need for an organisation such as Newtraid.org and it can make a contribution to world development through using dedicated volunteers.

A Meeting Place on the Web Provides Support for Dairy and Bakery Projects to Supply School Children in Pakistan

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