Vice President of YES Network Pakistan

Ms. Kulsoom is the Vice President of YES Network Pakistan. Ms. Kulsoom A. Meraj did her Masters (Hons.) in Poultry Husbandry from University of Agriculture Faisalabad in 1998. During her Post-graduation, in 1997, she has been engaged by Action Aid Pakistan and GTZ as a consultant for designing and conducting Initial Research for baseline survey by using PLA techniques; for compiling the initial survey and feasibility reports; analysing the data in Bahawal Nagar and on the existing livestock system and fodder in the area of Choochak.

The exposure and experience of working with NGOs motivated her to venture into the field of social development. HEAL became her first love. After completion of her post-graduation, she joined HEAL in 1998 as Social Organizer and remained with them till September, 2005. However, HEAL acknowledged her potentials and contributions. So, she was elevated to Training Officer and ultimately Project Coordinator for “Education Program” and “Adolescent Reproductive Health Project”.During the stay at HEAL, she performed a multitude of tasks pertaining to her responsibilities, ranging from Community Mobilization, conducting and analysis of baseline surveys to development of training material and training roll out. She too has been responsible for preparing DIPs – Detailed Activity Plans – and monitoring the activities accordingly.

Since October, 2005, she has been affiliated with JICA – DSP as Senior Trainer. Her assignments include planning of CCB facilitation interventions, development and roll out of trainings. She also has to supervise, support and report the trainings and CIP – CCB Implementation Plan – activities in the model district Hafizabad. She got her potentials harnessed through a wide number of trainings on multiples subjects conducted by most authentic names like NCRD, American Centre, WPF, ECI, CIDA, MDF- Asia, etc. She has conducted trainings on subjects like Communication and Presentation, Supervision Skills, Basic Health Education, Reproductive Health and CCB Rules, etc.She has three Publications and one research thesis on her credit.