Baltit Rural Support Organisation
The historic Baltit Town has served as official capital for more than 800 years of former Hunza State, due to which the community of Baltit served as host to florish tribal institutions and developed a self sustainable rural based mountain society untill the creation of Pakistan in 1947. The Baltit Town is situated in the heart of Hunza Valley at a distance of 106 kilometers from Gilgit in the south and almost 100 kilometers from Soust (border town with China in the north). The community of Baltit having experience of establishing various institutions especially in Education, Health and culture etc. Baltit community were first to introduce Male Primary School in 1912 to spread basic and primary education to rural masses. The community of Baltit is divided in four distinct tribes, who are well organized under Village organizations and women organizations to accelerate socio-economic development since 1983. During May 2011, leadership of grass roots level Village and women organizations came forward to form Baltit Rural Support Organization. The organization now represents 24 VO/WO’s of Karmabad union council. Since its formation process and initiation of activities through voluntary leadership during 2011 and 2012, considerable progress made in diverse sectors, which ultimately convinced the AKRSP’s regional programme team to select on merit to consider for giving Management Support Fund to sustain and further develop its programme activities in the UC Karimabad Hunza.
