Where we work

Headquartered in Mardan, working across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

LEO works only in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. There is no international footprint, and no claim to one.

Relief Commissioner Iqbal Hussain meeting LEO members at the organization's office in Mardan — Relief Commissioner Iqbal Hussain visits the LEO office in Mardan, seeing the projects and meeting members of the organization.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan

Current programmes
Historic work
Where LEO works now

District boundaries from geoBoundaries (gbOpen, open licence). Every district in the province is named. The ring marks the four districts where programmes run today; Charsadda and Swat, shaded lighter, are where LEO has worked in the past.

Head office Water and sanitation Solar water Health Education Shelter and housing Emergency relief Livelihoods Current Historic

DistrictCurrent

Mardan

Head office and skills centre, on Charsadda RoadSince 2006
Mardan Medical Complex: incubators, baby warmers, oxygen and medicines for the neonatal ward2025–26
Six new classrooms built at the Government Primary School, Kodary Circle, with a veranda and four washrooms, for 370 students2025–26
Community school at Garibabad, Swabi Road, where more than 270 children studyEducation for All
Hand pumps and wells across the Katlang, Garibabad and Risalpur programmes2025–26
Homes built for widows, complete with utilities — twelve in three yearsHome Projects
Sewing, knitting and computer courses at the skills centre; Zakat employment for 40 families2025–26
Darul Aman winter support: medicines, warm clothes, blankets and bedding2025–26

DistrictCurrent

Nowshera

Dag Ismail Khel, Cherat: a village-scale solar water system serving about 270 households2025–26
Qazi Hussain Ahmad Medical Complex: neonatal equipment, one of three complexes covered2025–26
Flood response at Pir SabaqEarlier years

DistrictCurrent

Swabi

Bacha Khan Medical Complex, Gajju Khan Medical College: baby ward equipment2025–26
One of the three medical complexes equipped under the two-phase neonatal programme2025–26

Women seated at a winter kit and clothing distribution session, seen from behind, as a speaker addresses the room beside the event banners — Field activity in Mardan: a winter kit and clothing session for women and children, organized by the Social Welfare Department Mardan in collaboration with LEO, 2025–26.

DistrictCurrent

Buner

Emergency flood relief: 200 food packages, reaching about 1,400 people2025

Tehsil of MardanCurrent

Takht Bhai

Government Polytechnic College solar water, for 1,200 students and 85 staff2025–26
International Workers' Day programmes at Government Degree CollegeAnnual

DistrictsHistoric

Charsadda and Swat

Safe water interventionsEarlier years
Flood responseEarlier years

No programmes run in these districts today. They are shown because the work happened, not to inflate the current footprint.

On the ground

What that looks like in practice

Three moments from the districts above: a course completed, a health camp opened, and a well being drilled.

Guests seated at the ceremony table beneath a Labour Education Organization banner for a free computer course certificate distribution — Former Education Minister Hafiz Akhtar attends the certificate distribution ceremony on completion of the computer course.

A full room of community members seated at the opening ceremony of a LEO blood grouping camp, with the organization's banner and a board of its aims on the wall — The blood grouping camp opening, 18 July 2012 — the date is on the banner. Beside it, a second board sets out LEO's aims in Urdu. The room is the community it was run for.

A truck-mounted drilling rig on site for a community water well — A drilling rig arrives. Behind every hand pump and solar well in the figures above is a week that looks like this.