Since 2005 · Pakistan & beyond
CompassionIn Action
Give a little. Help a lot. CDRS reaches the people other organisations cannot get to, with clean water, medicine, a hot meal, a home and a way back.
Our mission
To improve the lives of impoverished and neglected human beings by providing quality healthcare, safe drinking water, and empowering youth and women through initiatives that focus on education, economic opportunity and community service.
We provide relief and logistics in disasters and support families in times of need. Our compassionate staff and programmes serve underprivileged people, as well as suffering animals, across all areas of Pakistan.
Beyond emergency relief we run long-term programmes: health system support and rehabilitation, care for special patients, mother and child health, youth community service, women's empowerment, construction of homes and schools, and provision of food and clean, safe drinking water.
Our projects
One organization. Nine ways we serve.
Wherever the need is greatest and the access is hardest, that is where CDRS works.
Medicine, food and rescue where the emergency is, and long after the cameras leave.
Clean drinking water, homes, schools and clinics built to outlast us.
A home, a skill and a second chance for widows, orphans, young people and animals.
Where we work
Rooted in Pakistan.
Ready anywhere.
CDRS operates a permanent, nationwide network across Pakistan, and when catastrophe strikes beyond its borders, our teams and logistics experience deploy internationally.
Permanent nationwide network: headquarters, clinics, shelters, kitchens and a logistics fleet.
Global footprint
Pakistan: 240 million people the world overlooks
Most donors know little about the country where CDRS works hardest. Pakistan is the world's fifth most populous nation, home to more people than Brazil or Russia, and one of its youngest, with a median age of just 20. It sits on the front line of the climate crisis: the 2005 Kashmir earthquake killed more than 86,000 people, and the 2022 floods submerged a third of the country and affected 33 million. Yet Pakistan has roughly one physician per 1,000 people, most healthcare is paid out of pocket, and vast rural regions have no reliable access to a doctor, clean water, or emergency services at all. This is why CDRS exists, and why a permanent, nationwide relief and healthcare network matters more here than almost anywhere on earth.
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Accountability
Registered. Certified. Documented.
Where the money goes, who says so, and how you can check.
U.S. 501(c)(3)
Tax-exempt nonprofit registered with the IRS for humanitarian relief, development and social welfare. Federal EIN 47-3837240. Donations are tax-deductible for US taxpayers.
Pakistan Registered
Registered as a trust with the Government of Pakistan and certified as a trusted charity by the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy.
Documentation & Reports
Annual reports, audited financials and organisational documentation available for donors and partners.
View documentation ›Two Decades of Field Work
Relief missions in Pakistan, Haiti, Japan, the Philippines, Greece and the United States since 2005, with a nationwide logistics network across Pakistan.