Shazadi Faiza, an innovative tech-entrepreneur with a passion for digital marketing. She has a dream of empowering women with the power of digital marketing. Her empathy towards women who want to learn digital marketing from home and work from home led her to found Digital Girls, an organization dedicated to providing women with the necessary skills and tools to succeed in the digital marketing industry.  She has completed her Bachelor's degree in Business Technology and Information Technology (BBIT) from a renowned institution and is holding a diploma in Digital Marketing, SEO, and Entrepreneurship from the prestigious Institute of Business Administration [...]

Tahreem Jatoi is a young published Novelist and climate activist. She has recently graduated from the Institute of English language and literature, UoS. She is currently working in a specialist team at Youth Empowerment in Climate Action Platform by UNDP Asia-Pacific and UNFCCC. Also, she has completed her climate advocacy fellowship from FXB International. Before this, she did her climate project and Fellowship under PCG, British Council. Additionally, she will be working for a non-profit project “Ecopitch” on environmental advocacy to maximize youth inclusion and accountability, regionally. “Ecopitch” will focus on mentor training, climate-related idea pitching, and collective climate action [...]

Naina Samson is working as a Program Manager at Kahani Sunao storytelling School and is also a development Practitioner. Their business model is to bring peace through storytelling and to maintain peace and harmony in online and offline spaces. The main area of focus will be Climate injustice, Human rights, Social Cohesion, and Inclusion. So, it will be a social start-up named Kahani Sunao Storytelling School. This will help new journalists, bloggers, social/peace activists, and Human rights defenders to gain a professional degree. Their business model will be affordable fees for consultancy and paid preparation programs, for both rural and [...]

Hafiz Talha is a young activist from Lahore, Pakistan. He started social activism - voluntarily when he was in school. Talha passed his graduation from the University of Punjab Gender Studies. He is passionate about conducting theater performances and interactive sessions to train youth on Human Rights, Peace, HIV/AIDS prevention, Family Planning, Gender Equality, and their SRH rights. He had worked with ITA (Idara Taleem o Agahe) on a project ‘LSK’ where he gave training to kids regarding LSBE (Life Skill Based Education). Recently, he has been a part of the Institute for Social and Youth Development - (ISYD) as [...]

Fatima Yaseen is a young Sociologist who completed her bachelor’s degree from Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, with an excellent academic record. She was also inscribed in the Academic Role of Honor Lahore College for Women University and had been the secretary of the Sociological Society at LCWU.  Participating in different social activities like consultations, seminars, webinars, training sessions, etc. has built confidence, knowledge, professional behavior, leadership, and creativity in her. She was certified as a Youth Ambassador, Agent of social change, Volunteer Youth ambassador to Report incidences of Violence against Women, and Enumerator in Research on Climate Change.  [...]

Aftab Roonjha has been working with the Welfare Association for New Generation (WANG), a Lasbela-based non-profit organization focused on empowering young people through various social action projects in local communities. Aftab has developed a deep understanding of the challenges faced by these communities and has worked tirelessly to help address them. In addition to his work with WANG, Aftab has recently co-founded WANG LAB OF INNOVATION (WALI), the first-ever rural innovation lab in Lasbela Balochistan. Through WALI, Aftab is committed to bridging the gap between technology and rural communities, and connecting the unconnected through a number of his programs at [...]

Ayesha Noor is a feminist activist and humanitarian currently working at the Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Government of Pakistan. She is undertaking policy research and development of initiatives to tackle gender inequality and food insecurity in Pakistan. She took the lead in launching a national campaign, #StopGBVPK across the universities of Pakistan to raise awareness of pro-women laws in collaboration with National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). She also developed a citizen's guide to counter GBV under the Planning Commission's umbrella which has been disseminated nationwide. She is currently working [...]

Joshua Dilawar is a young activist and artist from Lahore, Pakistan. He is a National Focal Point In-charge of Y-PEER Pakistan and a member of Prime Minister’s National Youth Council. He’s very keen to work for adolescents and youth to bring positive and substantial change in the society. He has contributed in different fields of development and social domains like local development, human rights, minority rights, youth empowerment, health and wellbeing, social inclusion and development communication amongst other areas. As an advocate, Joshua is proud to have received The Most Active Volunteer Award by UNDP Pakistan, The 120 Under 40 [...]

Hasnain Akber is a final-year student of International Relations at National Defense University, Islamabad. While having belief in the “learning-by-doing” philosophy, he has been engaged with both domestic and international development, humanitarian, and business ventures in the previous three years. Hasnain is the founder of Factracker, which is aimed at specifically targeting two major issues plaguing the world of 21st century; fake news and lack of credible news platforms to address real-world problems by empowering the individuals to inform themselves about the veracity of any piece of information

I am a human rights activist & social entrepreneur, i am leading Network of Peace ambassadors at Punjab Women Protection Authority, this network aims to reduce violence against vulnerable groups and raise awareness regarding the rights, freedoms and protections granted to citizens. I am a trainer of Life skills-based education and i have conducted many sessions, trainings to sensitize young people to deal with their SRHR Challenges and to make informed decisions. The project that i aims to develop through this incubator is about reducing harassment or abuse that happens in educational institutions through sessions & theatre performances and this [...]