Re: Project Pakistan : How can we help rebuild Pakistan ?
Not worth it. Considering we don't have someone with a personal wealth of over 500 million US dollars. I will explain. In Darfur we have a budget of 4 million dollars to do small scale projects like building schools, clinics and water sources among other things like women centres, youth centres offices for the native administration and stuff. And that 4 million doesn't even begin to dent the problems.
Pakistan is much better yes. But the money alone needed is huge for areas like Balocistan and the Northern Areas or interior sindh. Also who is going to do the work? Even if you contribute money, you need someone on the ground to do the work etc. So on the individual scale you can not do anything worthwhile when it comes to small scale development projects.
If you still want to help start off by reading Three Cups of Tea. Its a book about an American who started build schools in Balistan in the early 1990s; that book will give you an example of how difficult it is.
I would highly suggest you send your zakat to Charities in Pakistan. Personally I donate to the Edhi Foundation and to the people who work around the house for my parents.
There are some good charities in Pakistan that do good work. I have generally stopped supporting International NGOs due to political differences on how they work.