Partnership Initiative in Pakistan

In 2009 the Trust partnered with The Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on an initiative to provide emergency financial assistance to displaced journalists and their families from Swat, Lower Dir and Buner in Pakistan.

More than 120 journalists, media workers and their families were among the two million plus refugees who had been displaced in northern Pakistan as a result of the ongoing conflict in and around the Swat valley.  Many of them were freelancers in urgent need of medical care and support with housing and subsistence.