Direct help for families across Pakistan
A family in Pakistan asked for help today. Be the one who answers.
Debt, hunger, overdue rent, school fees, a laptop to keep studying — every request is reviewed before help is given. Give money, Zakat or Sadaqah — or donate goods like ration, clothes, books or a laptop.
Donate goods GoodsRation, clothes, books, laptops — bring them to our office or send by courier.Need help? Request help — it’s free →
Every request is reviewed individually; support depends on need, urgency and available resources. Your details stay private and are never shared.
- Every request reviewed by our team
- A receipt for every donation
- Zakat and Sadaqah applied in full
Live from our records
People are already here
Every figure below is counted from our own files as you read this page, and moves up or down with them. They are registrations and requests, not promises of what has been delivered.
Each one is a household that wrote to us about ration, a school fee, rent or a medical bill. Our staff check the need before anything is given, and what you send goes to the families who pass that check.
- 114 volunteers have signed up Lawyers, doctors, teachers, trainers
- 42 students in free online classes Taught by volunteer teachers
- 60 rishta registrations Private — no public profiles
118 people have opened the site today 16,528 pages read in the last 27 days 525 free PHWO accounts
Free online classes
Learn for free with a volunteer teacher
Spoken English, Maths, computer skills, freelancing, exam preparation and more — online, from home, and completely free. Volunteer teachers in Pakistan and around the world give their time so you can learn.
What you can learn
- Spoken English
- English grammar & writing
- Maths
- Science
- Computer & IT basics
- Freelancing skills
- Exam prep (Matric, Inter, entry tests)
- Urdu
- Arabic
- More languages +
Classes are always free. PHWO never asks students for money.
Who it is for
- Adults aged 18 or older, anywhere in the world
- Students, job seekers, and anyone who wants a new skill
- A smartphone or computer and an internet connection
How it works
- 1Apply onlineChoose your subject, language and times. It is free.
- 2We match youWe verify your details and match you with a volunteer teacher for your subject.
- 3Learn onlineYou are introduced by email and agree your classes on Zoom, Google Meet or video call.
Volunteers needed — online worldwide, in the field across Pakistan
Your skills can change a family’s life this month
Every day, families write to us for help. Anyone, anywhere in the world, can volunteer online — teaching, legal advice, skills training and fundraising. Field volunteering — doctors, teachers, trainers and relief work — is in Pakistan. Volunteers in every field are welcome.
Volunteer in any field
- Teaching
- Health
- Legal
- IT & digital
- Fundraising
- Field & relief
- Counselling
- Office & admin
Choose online from anywhere in the world, or in the field across Pakistan. Free to join; every volunteer receives a certificate.
Apply to volunteer- Free to join
- Help online from anywhere, or in person in Pakistan
- You decide how much time you give
- Experience that counts for jobs & university
- Online from anywhere
- Field in Pakistan
What every volunteer receivesCertificate, letters and recognition
Our first priority
Women and girls first
Women and girls are PHWO's first priority. Many women in Pakistan face extra barriers to income, education, health care and justice, so we aim to direct at least 75% of our support to women and girls.
In every service, requests from women are looked at first. Men and boys can still apply — no one is turned away. Every service is free.
How giving works
Every donation is recorded and receipted
Every donation is checked against our bank and wallet records before it is counted, so every figure we publish is real.
- You choose an amount and a cause. Nothing is charged on this website. You receive our account details by email.
- You pay from your own banking app and tell us, attaching the transaction reference.
- We match it against our bank statement. Each one is checked individually.
- Only then does it count towards any figure we publish, and a numbered receipt is issued to you automatically.
At least 70% of every general or cause donation goes directly to people and programmes; up to 30% meets operating costs such as staff, verification and transport. Religious giving (Zakat, Sadaqah, Fitrana and Ramadan gifts) goes 100% to people in need. Where your money goes
Our work
Eight aims, taken directly from our constitution
Direct assistance to individuals whose requests our team has reviewed is under way. Each programme below is set out in our constitution and opens in stages as it is staffed.
- Education & Literacy Supporting deserving students, strengthening schools that already exist, and tackling the practical barriers that push girls out of the classroom. In preparation
- Health & Medical Care Help with the cost of treatment, care for mothers and newborns, support for long-term illness, free medical camps and prevention — for families across Pakistan who cannot afford care. In preparation
- Women Empowerment Training tied to actual income: a skill, a starter asset, a bank account in her own name, and a route to a market that will pay for it. In preparation
- Digital & Freelancing Skills Digital literacy, freelancing and remote work, so young people and women across Pakistan can earn a living without having to leave home to do it. In preparation
- Vocational Training & Youth Development Technical and trade training for young people, shaped by what local employers and local markets actually hire and pay for. In preparation
- Environment & Renewable Energy Tree plantation, cleanliness drives, and solar power for schools and clinics, planned around who maintains it in year five. In preparation
- Community Development & Poverty Alleviation Welfare and poverty alleviation work identified together with the households concerned, rather than decided on their behalf. In preparation
- Humanitarian & Emergency Relief Relief, food and clean water when floods and other emergencies strike, and preparation with households well before they do. In preparation
How we work
Three principles behind everything we do
- Listen before deciding
- Our members and volunteers identify needs directly with the communities we serve, rather than arriving with a plan already written for them.
- Work through institutions
- Government departments, schools, healthcare professionals and lawful partners, so that what we do outlasts a single activity and does not run parallel to what already exists.
- Account for everything
- Proper books of accounts from the first rupee, donations counted only once verified, and reporting on what was spent and what changed.
Who we are
Built by professionals from our own community, accountable from the first rupee
PHWO was established by ten professionals from our own community — advocates, doctors, an engineer, business owners and a freelancer — under a written constitution and a named governing body, with registration under the Voluntary Social Welfare Agencies Ordinance in progress.
Our members have been helping families in need from their own resources. PHWO exists to organise that help, to verify every request, and to reach far more people than any of us could alone. We publish figures only once they are verified, and we set out our plans in public so that you can hold us to them.
- Every donation
- Recorded and receipted
- Working for
- All of Pakistan
- Head office
- Larkana, Sindh
- Governed by
- A written constitution
Our Mission
To advance education, health, skills and dignity for underprivileged communities across Pakistan, through transparent, non-political and non-sectarian welfare work carried out with, not for, the people we serve.
PHWO exists to close the distance between need and response. Across Pakistan, and acutely in interior Sindh, families live within reach of the things that would change their circumstances and still cannot get to them: a child kept out of school, a doctor an hour away, a mother with a skill she can sell but no market to sell it in, a young person who could earn without leaving home if someone showed them how. Our role is to organise the people, the funds and the partnerships that close that distance, and to report honestly on what we manage to do.
Where we work, and where we begin
Our aims are national. The problems we have set out to work on are not particular to one district, and neither is our intention. Our constitution provides for extending our programmes to other districts and provinces in stages, with the necessary approvals.
Our head office is in Larkana for a straightforward reason: it is where our members live, and it is where the people who founded this organisation can be found and held to account by their own neighbours. An organisation that starts everywhere usually starts nowhere.
It is also a serious place to start. Interior Sindh sits below national averages on school enrolment, female literacy and access to qualified healthcare, and floods and seasonal emergencies have tested families here repeatedly. Yet the region has schools, colleges, doctors, lawyers, engineers and a large young population that wants to work. What has been missing is not willingness. It is an organisation that can hold funds transparently, coordinate volunteers, work formally with government departments, and keep proper records.
So: registered in Larkana, working for all of Pakistan, and supported by donors in Pakistan and around the world. At every stage we will say plainly where we actually operate, rather than where we hope to.
Our writing
Practical guidance for families in hardship
Clear, practical help on debt, health, education, Zakat and work — written for the people facing these problems.
- New Clothes for Women in Need: A Donation Delivered in Full in Larkana A donor gave new women’s suits to PHWO. Every suit reached women from families in need in Larkana, Sindh, and photographs of the handover were sent… Community Development & Poverty Alleviation
- What Volunteering That Actually Helps Looks Like The difference between showing up once and showing up consistently, the skills organisations genuinely need, and the safeguarding basics every volunteer owes. Community
- How to Make Drinking Water Safe at Home Boiling, chlorination, filtration and safe storage explained properly, along with the early signs of waterborne illness that need medical care. Health
Take part
Stand with the families who ask for help
Give or volunteer — every route helps someone who has asked us for help.