Global Development Foundation fundamentally assists Pakistan`s 2010 Flood Victims

Director of International Non-Governmental Organization GDF, Ozer Khalid, successfully spearheads Humanitarian Health Campaigns

Ozer Khalid, Director at the renowned INGO, the Global Development Foundation (GDF), along with Dr. Zahoor Uddin and other Senior INGO staff members, conducted pioneering path-breaking projects in the humanitarian and healthcare sectors. GDF, amongst numerous other humanitarian focused projects, aspires to help Pakistan attain Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 (reduced child mortality) and MDG 5 (improved maternal health). Since 2004 GDF has ceaselessly worked with national and international organizations to establish medical camps, Mobile Health Units (MHUs), static health centers and community health outreach programs to support the treatment of patients, training and deployment of community midwives and health facility staff. This drastically improved emergency and comprehensive obstetric and neonatal services for deserving mothers and children. After the devastating earthquake beset Pakistan on October 05, 2005, GDF immediately initiated to serve the victims by providing primary health care through mobile clinics and outreach services in District Mansehra. With the help of its dedicated staff and strong volunteer network across the globe, it raised awareness and created a vociferous need among international NGOs and donor agencies to work in unison for ensuring fundamental access towards primary health care services. Director Ozer Khalid supervised nation-wide humanitarian efforts, resourcefully raised health awareness campaigns, initiated public service messages and announcements, and with PR clout secured the attendance, funding and fundamental support of the Honorable Senator Salim Saifullah Khan and Turkish Ambassador in Pakistan, His Excellency Babur Hizlan, amongst many other noteworthy dignitaries. Such interventions were especially timely given the uber volatile regional situation exacerbated by the devastating floods in the ill-fated summer of 2010. Ozer Khalid, on behalf of GDF, with close cooperation of RMF, USA & Google`s Tide Foundation, decided to establish and deploy inclusive free medical camps in the affected areas of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, most notably districts Charsadda and Nowshehra. Global Development Foundation, RMF and Google have relentlessly been involved in relief operations on behalf of flood victims since the inception of this national emergency. After the 2010 flood, Director Ozer Khalid deployed GDF staff to establish primary health care units and MCH (Maternity Child Health) centers in partnership with RMF, USA and APPNA, USA in union council Gulbella and Agra in district Charsadda where teams of committed and dedicated health care professionals tirelessly provided round-the-clock comprehensive health care services. More than 45,000 patients were the beneficiaries as a result of these health and humanitarian services since 2010.