Working towards the education and empowerment of girls and women since 1993.
Barakat's Mission is dedicated to female empowerment through education and partnerships, enabling them to become their own best advocates. In Pakistan and Afghanistan, we provide exemplary basic education that advances literacy and increases access to secondary education. In India, we support programs to prevent and end violence against girls and women.
Our vision is a world free of violence where women and men can regard each other as equals, with equal opportunities to learn and grow.
The problem of violence against girls and women is compounded by the scarcity of opportunity afforded them. Opportunity can be denied by restricting womens’ movement, their voice and their expression. Education is a tool that allows girls and women to examine their own situation and change it. While education is a long-term investment for change; Barakat is also working with more immediate programs that protect women against violence that is happening in their here and now.
In Pakistan we have worked with refugees from Afghanistan for 28 years now.
Barakat programs are currently established in Attock, Punjab, home to many established as well as new refugees from Afghanistan.
Our current work is focused on the All Girls Barakat School and two Evening Schools for Girls. We also play a vital supporting role in the administration of three co-educational Barakat Schools which are being supported by successful businesspeople from Afghanistan as of 2021.
In India, we are launching The Ahimsa Pilot Initiative with the aim of supporting organizations and projects that are working to end violence against girls and women.
Barakat’s work in India began in collaboration with Care & Fair in Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh in 2000.
We are re-launching our work in India with The Ahimsa Pilot Initiative. Our first project partner in this endeavor will be SNEHA Mumbai.
In Afghanistan, Barakat created two schools in the Northern Provinces of Faryab and Jowzjan as well as running affiliated educational programs.
Our work in Afghanistan began in 2003 with the creation of Barakat Afghanistan as a distinct NGO. It further led to the creation, including the construction and management, of two schools and flowered from there to other educational initiatives for girls and women. .
Currently Barakat Inc. is supporting female teachers and the Education Coordinator for the Barakat Afghanistan programs. Simultaneously, we are continuing to look towards and collaborate with our co-funders in the Turkmen business community to take up the support and evaluation of both Barakat Afghanistan schools on a more permanent basis.
“A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.”
— Maya Angelou
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