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.
Barakat’s Vision is a world free of violence where women and men can regard each other as equals, with equal opportunities to learn and grow.
Our Guiding Values
Education is a fundamental human right and one of the most effective ways to reduce poverty and build healthy and peaceful communities.
When you educate and empower women, it has positive ripple effects within the family and community for generations.
We will take a holistic approach toward the issues we address so that our participants can grow and bring about change within the socio-economic context of their communities.
We seek to build positive social capital within the communities we interact with: Our program participants & our donors.
We will direct 100% of individual donor contributions towards programs on the ground.
We will be a fiscally responsible and responsive organization.
We believe in democracy and the rule of law from a micro to a macro level.
We are a secular organization.