Photo gallery

Photographs from our health camps, trainings, water projects, relief distributions and community sessions — plus press coverage and case studies.

Monthly meeting of the District Nutrition Addressing Committee.

Our programmes

Field photographs from our programme archive, including health, clean water, education, women’s empowerment, climate resilience, governance and humanitarian response.

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Oral polio drops at an EPI centre
Awareness walk, Mother & Child Health Week, February 2018
Orientation session for traditional birth attendants
Monthly meeting of the District Nutrition Addressing Committee
Community disaster preparedness planning training
Awareness session on child rights and protection
Global Handwashing Day, 15 October 2017
A community water filtration plant
District review workshop
Interactive theatre training, Pakistan Safe Drinking Water and Hygiene Promotion Project
PAIMAN awareness session on key health messages
Women Development Programme session
Traditional birth attendants at an orientation session
A community hand pump
International Women’s Day
Training religious teachers in hygiene promotion
District review workshop
Pakistan Safe Drinking Water and Hygiene Promotion Project
Training of community organisations
A community session under a camp tent
Nutrition awareness event
Experience sharing workshop
Global Handwashing Day session
Contents of a hygiene kit
A relief tent
Orientation session for traditional birth attendants
A community session under a camp tent
A health awareness session
Women Development Programme
Training of community organisations
Seminar
Health awareness in a camp
Community members meet with a health worker at an outreach camp
Medical supplies prepared for a community health camp
Health educators lead an HPV awareness session
Community members take part in an HPV information session
Community participants gather for a World Water Day event
A technician checks water filtration equipment
Women participate in a community learning session
Women gather for a community programme
Community members gather for an education session
Women and children take part in a community learning session
Community members gather for a resilience programme
Participants attend a community resilience session
A participant receives recognition at a governance workshop
Community members attend a governance and civic learning session
A temporary medical camp serves families in the community
Families gather at a humanitarian assistance site

Earlier years

Awareness walks, hygiene kit distributions, medical camps and community sessions from our earlier programmes. Many of these are low-resolution scans from the field.

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The Pakistani communities behind the numbers

From flood-hit valleys in Swat and brick-lined alleys in South Punjab to rural Sindh, Gwadar and Karachi’s working-class quarters — these documentary photographs from across Pakistan show the everyday realities of families working without a safety net.

Documentary photography from Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan & Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (licensed via Pexels, with photographer and location credits on every frame).

A child looks across flood boulders and a wrecked van after flash floods in Madyan, Swat, Pakistan

When monsoon floods rewrite a child’s world

Flash floods tear away roads, hand pumps, clinics and homes in minutes. Our mobile medical camps, clean drinking water systems and winter relief kits help families survive the aftermath and rebuild.

Madyan, Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa · Photo: Amjad ali / Pexels

Close-up portrait of a young child in rural Balochistan, Pakistan

A childhood spent working instead of learning

Across rural Balochistan, Sindh, Punjab and KP, children herd livestock or work street carts when schools and safe water are out of reach. Non-formal classrooms give them a second chance.

Balochistan, Pakistan · Photo: Hanif Ali Baluch / Pexels

A young boy in a rural settlement in Balochistan looks straight at the camera
Balochistan, Pakistan · Photo: Hanif Ali Baluch / Pexels
A child stands beside flood boulders and a wrecked vehicle after flash floods
Madyan, Swat, KP · Photo: Amjad ali / Pexels
A young girl sits beside a weathered mud-plaster wall
Gwadar, Balochistan · Photo: Hanif Ali Baluch / Pexels
Two young sisters look out from the wooden doorway of their village home
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa · Photo: Amjad ali / Pexels
A young shepherd boy rests on a rock with his grazing stick instead of sitting in school
Swat Valley, KP · Photo: Amjad ali / Pexels
A child herds goats along an earth canal bank in rural Sindh
Kandiāro, Sindh · Photo: Saeed Ahmed Abbasi / Pexels
An elderly farmer harvests wheat by hand under the afternoon sun
Talhar, Badin, Sindh · Photo: Hashim Khan / Pexels
Boys walk down an unpaved brick lane in South Punjab
Jalalpur Pirwala, Multan · Photo: Kashif Shah / Pexels
Village children play with pebbles outside brick homes in South Punjab
Jalalpur Pirwala, Punjab · Photo: Kashif Shah / Pexels
Young girls in traditional shalwar kameez gather beside a stone wall
Northern Pakistan · Photo: Imad Clicks / Pexels
An elder sits outdoors with two young children in his community
Rural Pakistan · Photo: pierre matile / Pexels
A grandfather sits with village children on a woven charpai
Banjot, KP · Photo: Amjad ali / Pexels
Children stand outside stone homes in a mountain village
Bishgram, Swat, KP · Photo: Amjad ali / Pexels
Two young children share a quiet moment on a street in Punjab
Faisalabad, Punjab · Photo: Aa Dil / Pexels
A boy holds a single candle inside a darkened home
Lahore, Punjab · Photo: Aa Dil / Pexels
A boy wades through standing water in rural Sindh
Kandiāro, Sindh · Photo: Saeed Ahmed Abbasi / Pexels
A street cobbler repairs shoes by hand on a roadside pavement
Karachi, Sindh · Photo: Imtiaz Ahmed / Pexels
Daily-wage labourers haul heavy grain sacks in a wholesale market
Lyari, Karachi · Photo: Wasif Mujahid / Pexels
Young street vendors sell potatoes from a cart to earn for their family
Karachi, Sindh · Photo: Tahamie Farooqui / Pexels
A villager carries a heavy bundle of fodder across steep mountain terrain
Gabin Jabba, KP · Photo: Amjad ali / Pexels
Children guide sheep along an unpaved lane between village walls
Manglor, Swat, KP · Photo: Amjad ali / Pexels
Village elders gather in a traditional hujra consultation — how local decisions begin
Chamtalai, KP · Photo: Amjad ali / Pexels