The acronym MRDO stands for “Movement for Rural Development Organization”. It is a social welfare organization, which has come into existence in December 2007 originally; it was small village society in Khazana Dheri District Mardan. MRDO organized the local Youth in 1998 for welfare of poor farmers of his village. Sometimes, the village society would arrange free medical camps in collaboration of different NGOs for the welfare of the poor community in different villages of Mardan.
MRDO is a multipurpose gender sensitive youth focused, community based welfare and development driven non-profit Organization working in the fields of Women empowerment, Human Rights , Child Protection, Disaster, Education, Health , Environmental Protection, Water Supply and Sanitation & Agriculture. The Group of Energetic Youth makes an Organization, which shall run on self-help basis for the poor rural community of central region of Khyber Pakhtun Khwa. Thus an NGO was setup by this group of young social activist, Lawyers, Agriculturists, doctors & educationist and its name was kept M.R.D.O “Movement for Rural Development Organization”. This organization was registered with GOP Society Registration act XXI of 1860 (Registration No. 1464/5/5758) Khyber Pakhtun Khwa, Pakistan.
| Vision |
Peaceful & Prosperous society that can grantee equal rights for all the people without any discrimination
| Mission |
Socio-economic and political development of the marginalized community through awareness raising, capacity building, technical & financial support and advocating their rights for equal development
| Thematic Areas of MRDO |
- Women Empowerment
- Human Rights (Women & Child Rights)
- Education
- Health (RH/SRHR)
- Water & sanitation (WASH)
- Environment / Natural Resources Management (NRM)
- Agriculture
- Tourism
- Peace & inter faith Harmony
To act as a catalyst of positive change in society through advocacy and promoting / Creating linkages / Coalitions and partnerships with GOs and NGOs on issues relevant to sustainable development.
VALUES: –
- No discrimination on the basis of gender.
- Equal development opportunities for all.
- Democracy and democratic principles, practices and culture.
- Equality.
- Gender Justice
Believes: –
- All human beings deserve equal rights
- Peace and Justice should be ensured at all levels
- Democracy and democratic principles and culture should be guaranteed at all levels
- Participation of all in the decision-making must be ensured
- Respect and fairness
- No damage to environment for any development interventions should be
- Religious and cultural sensitivity
- Transparency should be an all encompassing