Aghaz-e-Nau

Aghaz-E-Nau (AEN) has experience of working with NGOs/CBOs from different cities of Pakistan. AEN carried out capacity building programs for NGOs/CBOs from all over the Pakistan.   Our main focus remained on PWID, FSWs, Inmates and Youth as far as HIV prevention interventions are concerned. We carried out two projects for FSWs funded by CIDA and UNODC respectively. AEN also worked with sex workers (FSWs, MSW/MSM/TGs) to see the effect of different prevention interventions on high risk behavior of sex workers. Our work with sex workers got published in many journals. Given below is a short list of projects, which we carried out starting from 1993 till 2017. AEN started its journey with the establishment of a drug rehabilitation center in 1993 with the help of UNDCP initially and then we received funds from EU, CRS and UNODC. We established a separate drug rehabilitation center for females in 1995 with the help of CIDA. We also developed and executed a successful drug abuse preventi

Aghaz-e-Nau (AeN) conducted a seminar on "Drug Abuse Prevention" for the students of Lahore College Women University in collaboration with Anti Narcotics Force Punjab on 9th February, 2011. AeN is thankful to Mr. Altaf Qamar, Deputy Director General, Anti Narcotics Force (ANF), Pakistan and Brig. Shahid Afzal; Force Commander, Anti Narcotics Force (ANF), Punjab to grace the occasion with their presence. Ms. Shireen Asad, Associate professor & in charge students’ academic affairs of Applied Psychology Department (LCWU) started the formal session. The session started with the National Anthem followed by the recitation of Qur’an and Naa’t by the students of LCWU. A brief introduction of AeN was given by Ms. Shireen Asad. After that she handed over the comparing to Ms. Arjumand Ayub and Ms. Fatima Malik for further proceedings. Welcome note was given by Ms. Arjumand Ayub, Clinical Psychologist (AeN) followed by a speech by Brig. Shahid Afzal . In his sp