DOST Foundation - Reaching and Healing
DOST Welfare Foundation is Pakistan's largest drug rehabilitation organisation and is at the forefront of the country's efforts to tackle drug related challenges. DOST works with all marginalised members of society, be it women and children in prisons, street children, refugees and the community at large.
For three decades DOST has been providing impact at scale through engagement with the public and private sector.
Dost UK has been supporting the work of DOST Pakistan since 2010.
A drug addicted street child before and after treatment
Reaching Out
DOST's purpose is to reach out to stigmatised people living on the margins of society, provide them holistic treatment, and bring them back into the mainstream. People on the margins live a life of despair and are devoid of all hope, because they are rejected by society. DOST sends outreach teams daily to identify these people, register them, and ultimately enrol them for services according to their needs and rights. These vulnerable groups include street children, drug addicted children and adults, prisoners (men, women and children) , transgender people, and refugees and displaced persons.
A short documentary on DOST work, produced by Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
DOST UK
Here at Dost UK, our focus is supporting children; helping them realise their worth, and reintegrating them into society. Our core demographic is: - street children
- child drug addicts
- child prisoners
- at risk school children
- street children
- child drug addicts
- child prisoners
- at risk school children
