Featured Cases
Akhuwat Flood Rehabilitation 2025
As the floodwaters are now receding, we need your support for the rehabilitation of these families by providing interest-free loans to those in need. These loans will help them reconstruct or repair their homes, purchase inventory to restart their businesses, establish new businesses, including agricultural products and livestock purchases. In this hour of need, we invite you to stand with us in helping flood-affected families.
Interest Free Microfinance
Akhuwat was founded in 2001 to support economically active, and financially deserving families through interest-free loans. By providing interest-free loans, Akhuwat empowers these families to pave a sustainable pathway out of poverty. To date, Akhuwat has empowered over 4 million families through interest-free microfinance.
Donate to Akhuwat Clothes Bank
The clothes are collected from families, they are repaired, washed / dry cleaned and packed. All these tasks are carried out by members of the transgender community who have been wronged by society numerous times. Akhuwat has worked towards ensuring they get a respectable platform as working employees. The packed clothes are then given as gifts to the needy.Clothes donated by people from all over Pakistan are brought to the clothes bank at Akhuwat’s head office where they are carefully sorted, repaired, washed and packed by a team of Khawaja Siras (transgender). This project is also promoting dignified employment for the Khawaja Siras who are the discriminated segment of the society and are deprived of basic human rights anywhere else.
Sponsor a Student at Akhuwat College
Akhuwat has been focused on making education accessible to the poorest of the poor. It believes that every child deserves a chance to be educated; not only is it promoting learning in terms of the regular curriculum, it also aims to fine-tune its students to become productive and efficient human beings in all walks of life. For this particular cause, Akhuwat has established a College in Lahore. Titled the Akhuwat College, it is a residential facility catering to students from all over Pakistan (40 Districts) joins the college with a commitment to pursue their dreams, build the nation and change the world. Akhuwat College is a residential facility; the reason being the fact that Akhuwat does not only want to educate its students in the fields of science and information technology it also believes that it is the institution’s responsibility to nurture the students’ personality and mould them into prolific human beings. Akhuwat aims to groom them enough to be able to secure admissions in prestigious universities and later on use the same skills to succeed in life. For more details, please visit: http://www.akhuwat.org.pk/akhuwat-educational-services/akhuwat_college/
For you as a potential donor, the satisfaction of participating in a cause as noble as sponsoring a child’s education is unparalleled. Sponsoring a student at the Akhuwat College requires you to pay only Rs. 25,000 per month. Through this act, you will be able to take the credit for actively contributing in shaping up the future of Pakistan. Help us put our initial batch through College and become a permanent part of an establishment that will impact the lives of millions in the years to come.
Khawajasira Support Program
The program has several stages, starting with social engagement and provision of a small income supplement to the most vulnerable. Through this program, Akhuwat hopes to reintegrate the khwajasiras (transgender) into the society as equal and dignified citizens.
Support Akhuwat Learning Hubs
so these lives left on pause can play again...........It takes a Community to raise a Child but it takes AKHUWAT to raise a Community.
Learning Hubs, a testimonial to Muwakhat is a marvel of the Participatory Development Model. Inaugurated on 23rd March 2018, two centres were set up in collaboration with Akhuwat, WCLA and PACP. These centres in Bagh Munshi Ladha and Dehli Gate are safe havens for children of sex workers, dancing girls, musicians and the destitute of inner city, providing them with educational, health, vocational, recreational and counselling services.
From a school of ten odd kids in a house in an area called mini Heera Mandi, it mushroomed into a communal space. Emboldened as sex workers, former dancers and even a promoter joined the Learning Hubs, we opened up more Hubs to accommodate families of the area.
More recently SID ventured from the narrow inner city streets of Lahore to the vast Valleys of Gilgit Baltistan and founded the The Yasin Learning Hub. Catering to 19 boys becoming hafiz & 20 girls doing an Alama course in a boarding school we will be providing them with mainstream education in addition to Hifz. Adding vocational training and recreational activities.
Ideally the Learning Hub will include (the prototype is in Bagh Munshi Ladha)
Educational Hubs: blends public curriculum with inquiry based sustainable curriculum (based on concept of STREAM ) and five-year Socio Psychological intervention curriculum, also provides accelerated learning and adult literacy services.
Makers Hub: Providing a platform for innovation & creativity, technical classes for youth & Family Financial Literacy Workshops & Services.
Health Hub: AIDS & Hepatitis screening & vaccination, medical camps, medical check up, diagnosis, treatment and medication. Counter deficiencies and malnutrition
Food Hub (Community Kitchen): Providing healthy meals cooked by the parents, cooking classes, affordable rations & meals
Craft Hub: Vocational & skill based courses, providing extra earning and livelihood opportunities, interest free microfinance loans for parents only if children are enrolled in school and have an above 90% attendance. Liberation loans for those in the clutches of moneylenders are also processed.
Value Hub (Thrift Shop): New or gently used articles, crafts made at the Craft Hub and any merchandise by the community is available at nominal rates.
A street that was a no go zone lined with brothels and drug pedlars is fast becoming an Akhuwat Street.
Akhuwat Mushahida School
Akhuwat Mushahida School of Hospitality and Tourism (AMSHT) aims to provide students, from underprivileged backgrounds, a passageway into the flourishing industry of hospitality and tourism. Considering an increase in job opportunities in the field, AMSHT strives to establish itself as a center of excellence in providing the industry with a competent workforce. The diploma courses are carefully curated to train the students to excel in different areas of the hospitality industry and the courses include Culinary Arts, Property Management, Business Communication and Food & Beverage Service. AMSHT is a fee free residential educational facility.
AKhuwat Alumni Endowment Fund
“Akhuwat has set up an Alumni Endowment Fund with the aim of raising funds from the alumni who have received fee-free education from the institutes under the umbrella of Akhuwat Education Services (AES).
This fund will ensure a cycle of reciprocity as Akhuwat’s graduates will vow to support students who are currently studying in Akhuwat Colleges completely free of cost. Through this fund, the philosophy of Mawakhat will be carried forward and education will be used as a tool for poverty alleviation.”