PESHAWAR: Youth across the province are showing positive signs of involvement in providing free services to people when it comes to blood donation, tree plantation campaigns, arranging literary festivals, study circles and free Iftar meal in and around towns and cities.

According to experts, the participation of youth in social activities is always deemed as a positive change in the societal landscape towards easing community life.

Fixit, a not-for-profit organisation, had started its initiative in 2020 in Sadder Bazaar’s Fawara Chowk and extended free Iftar Dastarkhwan to other parts of the city and even to other areas of the province to benefit maximum number of poor. The initiative has developed well-connected network across KP to engage youth in this social welfare project.

More than 2,000 needy people get benefitted from free Iftar Dastarkhwan daily as 100 volunteers hailing from diverse cultural background offer their free services.

Adnan Khan, chief of Fixit organisation, told this scribe that the imitative enabled young college and university graduates to contribute to society as it helped them to develop a sense of socialising and keeping them away from getting involved in anti-societal activities.

“Recently hundreds of young volunteers made fourth edition of Peshawar Literature Festival (PLF) a great success while arranging free Iftar for poor and needy is also getting widespread appreciation for their good social work. Everyday number of young volunteers increases as more poor people turn up at the free Iftar Dastarkhwan,” he said.

Fixit has attracted a considerable number of young volunteers for arraigning free Iftar in Peshawar and several other cities across the province to help poor daily wagers, needy students and attendants with patients in hospitals. The organisation has completed its fifth year of delivering free Iftar service through engaging young volunteers mostly college and university graduates.

“Other areas of the province include Abbotabad, Malakand, Swat, Buner, Mardan, Charsadda, Nowshehra, Takht Bhai, Kohat, Bannu and Hangu where hundreds of needy people show up at the free Iftar meal on daily basis,” the chief of the initiative said.

Meanwhile, Hunari Tolana arranged a free Iftar for more than 120 artists and singers both locals and Afghans. Dr Rashid Khan, the president of the artists’ organisation, said on the occasion that his team members distributed Eid gifts among deserving musicians and also gave away awards to renowned artists.

Published in Dawn, March 24th, 2025