Akhter Hameed Khan Foundation

30/12/2025

AHKF 2025: The Wrapped Edit 🎧

We hit “Play” on impact this year and the results are chart-topping. Here’s the “B-Side” of the 2025 album:

💉 The Health Remix: Referred 85 unimmunized kids for life-saving vaccinations.
🧠 The Rawan Track: Provided 175 counseling sessions over 124 clinic days.
🎓 The Academic Edit: 100 students graduated our Digital Skills Academy with top-tier results.
🚀 The Glow Up: 25 women-led small businesses officially launched and thriving.
🏠 The Street View: Installed 350 physical address plates to make mapping a reality.

To our donors: You’re our #1 listener. Thanks for making this year iconic.

30/12/2025

Universal Health Coverage is not about doing everything, it’s about doing the right things first.

In her latest article published in The News on Sunday, Dr. Ayesha Khan, CEO of the Akhter Hameed Khan Foundation, shares why Pakistan needs a smarter, more targeted approach to UHC, one that starts with urban poor communities, strengthens primary healthcare, and focuses on essential services that save lives and prevent poverty.

At AHKF, this mirrors our on-ground experience working in informal settlements, where early screening, maternal care, nutrition, and prevention can make the difference between resilience and crisis.

We encourage you to read the article and join the conversation on how Pakistan can move from health promises to health outcomes.

📖 Read here: https://tinyurl.com/3p48dnrm

Looking at universal health coverage for Pakistan’s urban poor

30/12/2025

When health tech meets the doorstep.

Aapiverse is powering Pakistan’s first community-led digital primary healthcare system, developed by Research and Development Solutions and implemented with Akhter Hameed Khan Foundation through the PHC project.

From geo-tagged health records to guided referrals, Aapis are using this app to bring essential care closer to families in Dhok Hassu and Orangi.

With the right partners, this innovation can scale. Let’s reimagine primary healthcare together.

24/12/2025

Mental health support was once unimaginable in Dhok Hassu until AHKF’s Rawan Desk made healing possible within the community.

This reel shares a real psychosocial support story of a woman navigating emotional distress, isolation, and abuse, supported by our counselors at the Roshan Aaj Academic System (RAAS). With care from NUST-trained mental health professionals, she began rebuilding safety, confidence, and connection.

To protect dignity and confidentiality, the name Rania and all visuals have been changed. Her healing journey, however, is real and one of many unfolding through the Rawan Desk.

AHKF remains committed to accessible, compassionate, community-based mental health care in Dhok Hassu.

🌿 This is an AI-generated video. The story is real; identity is protected.

[Rawan Desk, Mental Health Support, Psychosocial Care, Community Wellbeing, Healing Begins Here, Mental Health Matters, Rawan Journey]

18/12/2025

Is your degree enough for today’s job market?

Traditional education misses the skills employers actually want. At Roshan Aaj Academic System (RAAS), Dhok Hassu, we bridge the gap.

The 2025 Results:
🚀 95% Graduation Rate
💼 74 Students Workforce-Ready.

Master Advanced AI, MS Office & Data, and Digital Branding

📍 Dhok Hassu, Rawalpindi.

👇 Comment “SKILLS” to join our next cohort!
often overlooks the skills employers actually value

12/12/2025

AHKF at NUML💫

From slum upgrading to urban inclusion, our panel on Integrating Informal Settlements sparked important conversations on building resilient, equitable cities.

Follow AHKF for more impact stories and urban innovation!

09/12/2025

Strengthening cities. Supporting women. Shaping futures.
AHKF continues the legacy of Dr. Akhter Hameed Khan with community-driven impact.

📩 Donors & partners: let’s build impact together.

04/12/2025

Five days in Sahiwal.
Stronger groups. Smarter skills. New opportunities.

With 30+ waste pickers stepping into leadership and building pathways to stable, dignified livelihoods, the potential of Pakistan’s recycling sector has never been clearer.

Which shift matters most? Community power, industry links, or better city systems? Tell us below👇🏽

[Circular Economy in Pakistan, Waste Reform, Community Impact, Solid Waste Management, Urban Resilience]

30/11/2025

How do we build cities that include everyone?🏙️✨

Join AHKF at NUML for a powerful panel on Integrating Informal Settlements, featuring experts from AHKF, NUST, UN-HABITAT, PAKISTAN & Information Technology University.

🗓 3rd December 2025
📍 NUML
🎟 Free & open to all

If you care about sustainable, inclusive cities, this is the conversation you shouldn’t miss.

Walk in and be part of the change.

29/11/2025

Dhok Hassu’s women entrepreneurs stepped into new possibilities at , networking, learning, registering, and opening doors to growth✨

AHKF is helping home-based businesses scale with confidence and opportunity. 💛

Follow us for more stories of women rising.

25/11/2025

The financial resilience of women in urban Pakistan is undeniable, demonstrated perfectly by the community trust and strict savings of the Kameti (committee) system.

However, this resilience is trapped. The billions circulating informally are invisible to banks, preventing women from accessing the credit they need to scale their businesses and achieve economic power.

At AHKF, we see this discipline as a national asset. Through our Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) program, we provide the digital tools and formal access needed to transform Kameti discipline into a verified credit history and an economic boost for Pakistan.

👉🏻If you could take one thing from the Kameti (mutual trust, discipline) and add it to formal banking, what would it be? Share your thoughts below!

21/11/2025

Mental health support was once unimaginable in Dhok Hassu, until AHKF brought the Rawan Desk to the community.

This reel shares a real postpartum depression case supported by our counselors at the Roshan Aaj Academy (AHKF Office). With guidance from trained mental-health professionals, including psychology students from Department of Behavioral Sciences - DBS NUST, our client found stability, safety, and hope.

For confidentiality, her name and visuals have been changed but her healing journey is real, and one of many emerging from Rawan Desk.

AHKF is proud to pioneer accessible, compassionate, community-based mental-health care in Dhok Hassu.

🌿This is an AI-generated video. The story is real; the identity is protected.

[Rawan Desk, Mental HealthSupport, Postpartum Depression, Community Wellbeing, Healing Begins Here, Mental Health Matters, Rawan Journey]