By: Sanjay Mathrani
Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) and Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate and coordinate efforts and resources to support the current COVID-19 pandemic response.
Under this MoU, SPO with the financial assistance of Water Aid will construct one permanent toilet and place three portable hand washing stations, each equipped with liquid soap, in JPMC’s emergency ward, Corona Center and Eye Ward.
SPO will also continue to contribute to the ongoing initiatives of JPMC related to the pandemic response.
Present at the signing event were SPO’s Regional Coordinator Mr. Pirbhu Lal Satyani and JPMC’s Executive Director Dr. Seemin Jamali.
Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) is a rights-based service delivery organization striving to improve the well-being of communities and ensuring that citizens have access to and are aware of their rights and responsibilities.
SPO is currently serving in more than 50 districts across the country in sectors of health, education, sustainable livelihood, climate change, digital knowledge and cultural & tourism promotion.
In the past 26 years, SPO has been working with communities, legislators and public interest institutions to promote rights and civic responsibilities for human and institutional development through community mobilization, policy advocacy and capacity enhancement in various fields across Pakistan.