Ehsaas

Abstract

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is the fifth most populous country in the world with a poverty ratio of 31.3% in 2018 (Rana, 2019). This highlights the fact that a large part of the population is deprived of the basic necessities of life such as food and clothing. According to the Global Hunger Index in 2020, Pakistan ranks 88th out of 107 countries with a score of 24.6, indicating a serious level of hunger (Pakistan, 2021). The sensitivity of the situation can be measured by the point that the reason behind this starvation is not a limited production of food, but the miserable fact that the food that is produced is wasted in numerous ways. Moreover, there are thousands of people wearing torn clothes and living in houses with little or no furniture; the houses that they call homes are deprived of even some of the basic day-to-day needs, and thousands of youngsters wanting to study but not being able to afford buying new books. On the contrary, there are people with an excess of such things that are just uselessly staying in their possession. This unequal distribution needs to be tackled in or