Message from Executive Director
I have a vision and target in our planning to become a national level organization and in our first phase, we want to start a comprehensive coverage of our District Faisalabad and within one year the coverage of three Districts from Punjab. I feel we as social workers need to do more with some extendable approach of democratic procedures, poverty reduction strategies and betterment in the fields of agriculture and livestock. I believe in the reforms and better use of technology in the field of agriculture and livestock is the real solution for our development as we are basically an agricultural economy. As a social worker, I feel the trend to migration towards urban areas from rural regions is also very critical. We need to be more focused for skills development as non-formal educationalist for our youth to reduce their dissatisfaction and more useful for society. We need reforms in education sector by application of technical and useful curriculums. We need to continue democratic procedure as week democracy is much better than any type of dictatorship. We need to develop more indicators to observe the democratic procedures and better involvement of the civil society to observe and protect democratic procedures. The vicious poverty gives our population all miseries which are basic element of deprived communities e.g. health & education, feudalism, unemployment/under employment, gender discrimination, religious extremism, lawlessness and human trafficking etc. We as the representatives of civil society need to adopt and design better practices to reduce the miseries of our society. Social sector technocrats see this area as a main challenge for social development which has only one solution. New local leadership, unfortunately, the current political and social leadership is not only corrupt but also have their interests to not develop these communities and areas. So, there is corrupt political authorities and corrupt civil society for local development. Another issue is administration. Although administration has comparatively good discipline in respect of political bodies but these administrators are usually belongs from other areas of the country and they do not have keen interest for development. If they try for betterment, they have pressure from local political bodies. At the end the Pandora box of genies is the fate of local communities. The only options remain social bodies. These NGOs are doing a lot but the issue is that they are not local organizations. They belong from metropolitan cities of the country and they are doing work just by their branch offices. So, what they feel for these people cannot be equal to the feelings of a local person. The funding organizations should realize the need of local leadership as these local organizations like NLDO can do much better than any national organization as they want to extend and always have local pressure as they are from local community and they are reportable for local community as well as funding institutes. Imported social leadership, administration and feudal set mind makes the situation just a fix. So, the actual and realistic need is local leadership from local and middle class community for some solid bases development and NLDO is convinced to play its role and make some institute to develop, capacitate and promote local NGOs/NPOs from all local areas for development/promotion of local area based social leadership. Rana Sada
Executive Director
