Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Goal 3 Good Health and Wellbeing, Goal 17 Partnerships for the Goals
About Organization
- Established in: 2003
- Registration Law: Trust Act 1882
- Themes & Interventions: Education, Health
- What We Do: Service Delivery
Contact Details
- Head Office at Karachi
- Plot #8-C, Old Sunset Boulevard, Commercial Street, DHA Phase II, Karachi, Pakistan 75600
- Phone: 02135880312
- Email: info@aastrust.org
- Other Offices: Lahore
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Introduction
AAS Trust is a private, non-profit organisation in Karachi and Lahore that provides treatment, rehabilitation and aftercare to adults and children suffering from substance abuse and/or addiction.
The Trust runs 8 rehabilitation and aftercare centres in Karachi and 1 in Lahore – reaching out to those unattended, underprivileged people of our society who have fallen victim to substance abuse/addiction and/or trauma. At our centres, we offer a caring, respectful and comfortable environment, which fosters recovery through
(a) counselling and therapy;
(b) formal and non-formal education; &
(c) recreational activities and vocational training.
After its establishment in 2000, AAS opened its first rehab facility unit for drug-dependent adults (men only) in P.E.C.H.S. Then, with the assistance of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) in 2006, the Trust initiated a detoxification-cum-rehabilitation project for destitute children in Malir.
The only centre in Lahore that caters to adult men was inaugurated in June 2018 in Jubilee Town. It works in collaboration with Indus Health Network. Moreover, as a response towards the increasing problem of homeless women involved in similar abuse, AAS inaugurated a new centre in Model Colony in February 2019.
Besides providing services to our counselees, we conduct awareness sessions with their families and have also taken steps towards containing this menace with the assistance from local and federal governments.
To this date, the Trust has served more than 1500 patients, with a 32.6% recovery/success rate. It continues to help individuals overcome their addictions to help them lead productive, drug-free lives.
