Amazing Pakistani Social Workers

Khalida Brohi

Khalida Brohi launched a non-profit organization, Sughar Empowerment Society in order to help women from backward rural areas of Pakistan. She herself likes to refer to her as a rural woman albeit being well educated in Karachi. She never forgot her roots and started off with social initiatives at the age of 16. She carefully tread the path of empowering and facilitating woman in communities which remained highly conservative in these areas. She faced resistance and financial setbacks in formative years of her organization but she would take them as learning experiences and even published them on a special page on official website of her organization. Her work focused on uplifting of women who have been ignored by society at large

Her work was recognized in form of several awards as well as fellowship at MIT Media labs. Her page at MIT media labs
details her work while official team page of Sughar Empowerment Society has other details about her and her team.

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