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Daadras began as a grassroots response during COVID-19 and grew into education, relief, digital literacy, and peacebuilding work across communities in Pakistan.
Building education, relief, and peacebuilding through local trust.
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Founded in Lahore, Daadras works across education, technology, social-emotional learning, and humanitarian response. The public Daadras team page lists Umar Zafar as CEO and founder.
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Beneficiaries across education, relief, and community programs, based on the supplied local program record.
Children reached across three partner organizations, as listed on the public Project Salam page.
Families supported through monthly ration, medicine, sanitary-product, and emergency relief work.
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Education as logic-building, self-expression, and institutional trust.
Project Salam pageProject Salam is a research-based, skill-based curriculum for children in partner organizations. It combines first exposure to computers, chess as analytical practice, social-emotional learning, public speaking, creative technology, and mentorship.
The point was not simply to add activities. The point was to make education feel trustworthy in places where formal systems often arrive as discipline before care.
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The timeline below follows the organization from its founding charter to a more institutionalized operating model.
Executive Council drafts the constitution: empathy, non-discrimination, youth-led civic action.
The principles that still govern the org.
First project, launched in the adversity of COVID-19: monthly food rations delivered to families.
Immediate relief; the program that started everything and remains active.
Pivot away from dependency through families' existing skills: motorbikes, rickshaws, fruit stalls, sewing machines, medicine, sanitation, and blood-donation support.
Recipients become self-supporting; aid as a stepping stone, not a comfort zone.
Flood-victim relief; Ramadan iftar drives; orphanage support; book donations.
Reach broadened from single families to communities in crisis.
Project Salam skill-based education curriculum; partnerships with TRN and PSZ; three domains formalized: Dastarkhan, Salam, Research; Campus Ambassador Program; digital/AI adoption; 10K Monthly Challenge.
From relief org to durable institution: education, data, and a national volunteer network.
Donor Database, digital-rights workshops, and continued programming.
Operational maturity; systems for sustained impact.
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