About Us

Shahina Aftab Foundation (SAF) is a global NGO whose primary objective is providing women set back in life by impact of natural disasters/ conflicts/ social exclusion, hardship & distress with tools & skilled to restart their lives. This is done through skill based training, empowerment & sustainable income generating project. The aim is to empower women to be "agents of change" who provide for themselves, their children and play an active role in community development. SAF also advocates on social issues as environment, corporate social responsibility and calamity management.

Vision

Providing women “a chance at life” through skill based training, enterprise development and microloans/ grants enabling them access to necessities of life. And empowering women to become agents of change & play their role in community development.

Mission
  • Provision of short-term crisis aid;
  • Counselling;
  • Encouraging economic enterprise;
  • Skill development;
  • Business support;
  • Micro loans & grants
  • Undertaking community development projects as buidling schools, hospitals & community centers.
  • Cooperation/ Coordination with organizations & partners having similar goals and objectives
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News & Media
BBC on Shahina Aftab Foundation (SAF) Shahina on September 5, 2010 at 9:02 AM

Two women from Islamabad, who decided to put their personal lives on hold in order to help Pakistani flood victims, describe the areas they visited and what they did there...



Newsline covers Shahina Aftab Foundation Shahina on September 5, 2010 at 8:47 AM

A couple of friends and I visited flood-hit areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on August 14 and 15. We made arrangements with three different NGOs through which relief packages of food would be distributed to flood-affected....