Two women's beliefs enlighten the path for millions to gain property rights

Karachi: On a hot summer afternoon, in Manghopir, the most remote area of the port city, a white car passes through the narrow and crooked diagonal streets, crosses the high, low and dirt roads and stops in front of a house.

There was a cluster of poor women in that house. These women had come to participate in a program and that program consisted of awareness about the rights of women in property, the rights that are unfortunately innumerable here. Women don't get it. The despondency and despair were evident on the faces of the women who came to the program, they were disappointed but also full of hope. It was done, she will also see the joys with bright eyes, sorrows and pains will end one day or the other. In the middle of these thoughts and feelings, Advocate Zahida Parveen Memon and Shazia Usman get out of the car and enter the house, they also have some information booklets, standees and banners.

Zahida and Shazia are associated with the Legal Aid Society, known as LAS, known primarily for providing free legal advice and support. While other projects of this organization are working in Pakistan, a project called Women's Rights to Legal Property is providing complete awareness to women regarding their rights in property. Through this project, working in Larkana, Shaheed Benazirabad, and Karachi in Sindh, thousands of women have been fully aware of their rights, full support is also being provided to women in case of cases filed in courts, community mobilization and awareness sessions are a special part of this project, in which trained paralegals and field staff of the LAS are engaged in achieving their goals.

Advocate Parveen says that women not getting the right to property is one of the major problems of Pakistan, poor women are already grinding in the mill of the most difficult conditions, then if they are not given their rightful right to property too, it is So there will be cruelty, and this cruelty on helpless women hurts every sensitive heart and brings tears to the eyes. Awareness programs are acting as a salve in this regard, making women confident, and this confidence building goes a long way in reducing women's problems.

Field Officer Shazia expressed her thoughts and said that I wanted to be a teacher but then after being associated with this project of Legal Aid Society, I realized that this is the only work that I have to do. Done with hard work, passion, and dedication, it definitely pays off. Through community mobilization, feelings can be evoked in women, feelings that ultimately make them strong, but for this, first and foremost, representatives working for women must be strong.

“I never felt nervous or tired while working in the harshest climates, my heart wants to continue working, I feel happy by providing awareness to women, the heart has a sense of peace and satisfaction," the smile on Shazia Usman's face testified to her true feelings.