Few are situated in districts West, East Karachi, Dadu, Thatta and Sanghar. All the villages have Muslim communities and are Sindhi, Baluchi or Brohi speaking, lives in pucca Kacha mix type of houses. Most of them do not have tap water supply or proper sanitation drainage. Water tanker is the only mean of transport for most. Few villages do not have electricity while most of them do not have telephone.
Metaled roads are present to approach most of the villages except few where there are no roads.
Majority of the villages are agricultural except the coastal area villages where fishing is the source of income. The literacy rate of the project area villages on an average is same as the national figures of literacy. Majority of population is either labor or farmer. The regional office is located in Hala town. Hala is situated at about one of 56 Kms away from Hyderabad on main National Highway.