Rasib Khan is a labourer living in Akhoon Bandi village, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He was 28 when he was interviewed on 18 January 2010 for the Rural Poverty Report 2011.
The interview was recorded in the language of Hindko and carried out by a staff member from the Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation. The interviewer had an existing relationship with the community but was not a professional researcher.
My name is Rasib Khan and I am working with Omar Asghar Khan Foundation. The Foundation is working on a poverty assessment survey in collaboration with United Nations which regularly publishes a report every 10 years on rural poverty containing suggestions on reduction of poverty.
Presently this work is underway in six countries, and Pakistan is one of them. Village Akhoon Bandi (your village) is one of the places (in Pakistan) which have been selected for this work.
In this respect we would like to conduct your interview and request your permission to record it. Is it okay for us to record it?
