Corporate Social Responsibility

Sayyed’s Contribution to Society

(i) Disaster Relief: Sayyed's team of volunteers including its top management have been amongst the first to reach and provide relief to people on a small scale and in a humble way, during periods of flood and earthquakes in NWFP/Azad Kashmir.

(ii) Community Based School near Okara and Health Clinic near Muzaffarabad: Social mobilization in a village near Okara to help set up a school and in village Inayatabad near Muzaffarabad to help set up a medical clinic using the Participatory Development Methodology.

(iii) Calendars for Development and Social Justice: Over the years, Sayyed has introduced a tradition of producing calendars highlighting strategic development policy issues for Pakistan on the basis of original socio-economic surveys. These include at key historical junctures the advocacy of what were at the time, new development themes such as, A Study of Child Labour (1986), A Study of Female Labour (1987), Hungry and the Homeless (1988), Pakistan: Environment Under Threat (1991), and The Water Crisis (2001). The advocacy of these development issues by Sayyed has in many cases preceded public awareness and policy action. This work was acknowledged in the official document of the UN titled: UNDP Human Development Report 2000 (Page 119).

(iv) Research on Development Policy and Contributions to Institution building for poverty alleviation in Pakistan: The former Managing Director of Sayyed as part of corporate social responsibility has, over the years, undertaken research, and policy advocacy for poverty alleviation at the national, South Asian and international levels. (For details, see the website: www.akmalhussain.net).