Development with Empathy
Dr.Rakhshinda Perveen- Public Health & Gender expert, Entrepreneur, Author, non-elite Activist & Mentor. The Founder & CEO agehi (an incubator for instituting social entrepreneurship) an awakened dreamer with courage as her currency, has over 24 years of multisectoral experiences. At the age of 27 years she Co-founded & institutionalized (as member BoD, Twice Elected Exe
cutive Vice President & Honorary Founding Executive Director) an internationally recognized non-profit organization (SACHET Pakistan) that pioneered innovative combination of advocacy and service delivery in the areas of community participation, health education, and training and poverty alleviation with gender perspectives. She also Conceptualized & organized the first international youth conference on Human Development in Pakistan in 2003 from that not only included the local marginalized youth but was instrumental in establishing a separate Ministry for Youth in Pakistan besides producing Seminal TV series ‘Gender Watch’, which won her PTV Excellence Award in 2001 besides instituting Urdu alternative of gender (sinf).Following the Earthquake in 2005 she led the project team for nonprofits organizations and developed new partnerships, programs and mobilize resources. She has represented Pakistan in high-level meetings, events, in the media etc.Many of her assignments have been recognized as contributory to policy reforms especially her incisive research reports on violence against women in Pakistan. Her latest initiative is
Kafe Kaam located in F-8 Markaz Islamabad, an affordable co-working space aimed at empowering the disempowered with a special focus on Single Mompreneurs & people with disabilities. She can be reached at [email protected] & she tweets .
