Tools for Various Professions: Poor families and individuals are provided assistance in the form of push-carts and supplies for selling vegetables or other items as street vendors, or cash is given for setting up retail shops. Also under this project, tools and equipment are given for various professions for starting businesses.
It costs $75 for a sewing machine for a woman, $200 for a push-cart and supplies to start a street vending business, and approximately $200 - $500 to set up a retail shop and varied costs for tools based on each profession.
Hidaya Foundation was awarded Sitara-i-Eisaar (Star of Sacrifice) by the Government of Pakistan, in recognition of the results-oriented relief efforts during the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan.
Hidaya Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) with FEIN 77-0502583. All cash and in-kind donations are tax deductible. Hidaya puts it’s best effort to utilize the funds donated for a specific project, sometimes circumstances dictate we use funds otherwise.
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