Ministry in gipsy families.
There are many gipsy families living in Pakistan (a complete survey report can be made ready after a few months field service by the trained staff). The groups of gypsies are mostly tent dwellers. Most of them are professional beggars. However they always on the move from city to city, town to town and village to village. These people pitch their patched pieces cloth tents on wooden sticks or bamboos. They temporarily stay at one place and immediately on their move to another area where they find the begging facilities most favourable for them and their families. The empty/plots they occupy they are some time urged to vacate the area by the land owners or the police. Thus they travel to another place by taking belongings on the donkey coast.
The following are the gipsy tribes in Pakistan .
| Mirasi |
Meihang |
| Lali Fakeer |
Keehan |
| Sansi |
Suri mar |
| Gagra |
Baid kut |
| Odas |
Bazigar |
| Jogi |
Spaira |
| Kallander |
Ramdasi |
| Barar. |
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These tribes do not mix themselves with each other. Their likes and dislikes are different from one another.
In the past they did not like to settle them selves at one place but a couple of decades ago they are mixing with each other in few common interests. Their professions are different from one another. However they do not differ in social developments. They do not send their children in local schools for getting education. They do not accept marriages out of their own tribe.
A report of two tribes in four districts, which are Lahore, Kasur, Sheikhupura and Narowal (Punjab) are under our survey and the neediest people will be touched by our motivational staff and the out come will be published with immediate effect. Their urgent needs are:-
- Open Educational school right in their settlements
- Health care (to provide fresh and clean drinking water and teach hygienic methods).
- Adult Literacy Programme
- Women development (Social uplift, Vocational training in cutting, Sewing, Knitting and embroidery).
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