The Community Service and Sustainability Program (CSSP) at DHA Suffa University (DSU) is based on the theme of giving time or talent for the benefit of a community group (not for profit) that has a genuine need for service.  The CSSP is an action program that allows an individual to learn, serve, and transform their lives. While classroom teaching can help students learn about homelessness, extreme cases of poverty and societal problems, social service is the key enabler to make students learn more dynamically. This form of learning is essential for the success of a student’s professional growth. The CSSP plays an important role in invoking a sense of civic responsibility in an individual. To ensure that DSU’s vision of nation building is materialized, the university has made 60 hours of community service a mandatory requirement for undergraduate students of the Management Sciences Department.

In order to fulfil this requirement, the CSSP department at DSU has been providing the Management Sciences students with various platforms, and has collaborated with different organizations such as The Indus Hospital, The Citizen’s Foundation, Dar-ul-Sukun, etc.

As a part of one family, DSU wishes to engage its students in volunteering opportunities in SINA Health, Education and Welfare Trust. In this regard, DSU’s CSR department has been working with representatives from SINA, and it has been decided that social internship at SINA program will start from March.

Interviews for the social internship program at SINA were held on the 22^nd February 2019 in the conference room DSU, by representatives of SINA. A total of 36 candidates were addressed in this session. The purpose of this session was to get an idea of the students who had signed up for the volunteering program. A brief of the organization, the nature of work and the flow of events was covered in this session.

On February 1^st, 2019 a representative of a renowned health center, Chugtai Labs visited DSU to conduct a seminar on Stress and its management. This session was held in the Executive Lecture Theare of DSU and the target audience for this session were the Head of Departments, directors and Faculty members nominated by departmental heads.   Dr. Tahira Shahid conducted this session, who is a physician by profession but a motivational speaker and a health awareness educator by profession.

The session proved to be very beneficial for the audience as it covered the topics of stress in daily life and its relation with the diet that one takes. Dr Tahira spoke about the impact of stress and diet on an individual’s health. She particularly emphasized on proposing ways to manage stress, addictions and to have a balanced diet. In relevance to these problem, a PR package was distributed amongst the audience that comprised of a comprehensive diet plan. The CSR department wishes to conduct such sessions for students and employees of DSU in order to make them aware and conscious.

Students of the Community Service Society (DSU-CSS) at DHA Suffa University volunteered at a carnival organized by the Psychosocial Department of Indus Hospital to raise funds for the Children’s Cancer Hospital (CCH) on Saturday, 22nd December, 2018.

This was an excellent volunteering opportunity for DSU students.  Fifteen students of DSU will participate in Winter Carnival by Psychosocial Department Indus Hospital, on Saturday, 22nd December, 2018. This was an 8 hour volunteering activity, where students were required to set up game stalls, manage passes and assist the management. The total charity collected will be donated to the Indus Hospital for treatment of cancer patients.