Aakif Azeem
Student
An APS school attack survivor who is currently studying Environmental sciences at University of Peshawar. On Dec 16th 2014, he lost 17 of his friends and narrowly escaped death by the measure of a feather. He then went on and rescued 17 injured students who had escaped from the auditorium and trying to locate his own brother in the very same death zone. Along with 24 children of a class where he took refuge and 17 injured from the auditorium, he managed to save 41 lives. Rescued by the SSG at approximately 2pm he now has his prime focus to become a voice of change and has been doing so on various platforms. An ambitious writer he is now writing a book titled “The Darkness Within” where he explains the life of a child growing up and then facing the horrors that come after such a tragedy.
Akram Masih
Worker
He is a janitor at Beaconhouse National University who used to collects the waste material and make creative things out of them.
Haala Bashir
Architect
Hala Bashir Malik is an architect who is currently teaching design and history at Razia Hassan School of Architecture at Beaconhouse National University. She graduated with a B. Arch from BNU in 2009 and with a MS in Architecture from the Aga Khan Program of Islamic Architecture at MIT in 2014. She has worked with the Aga Khan Cultural Service Program on the Walled City Project. In 2010, she co-founded Resettling the Indus, along with many other BNU graduates, to respond to the crisis in the aftermath of the 2010 floods by using the built environment as the domain through which rehabilitation can be achieved. Since then, the organization has been active in sustainable development projects all over rural areas of the country, with the aim of empowering communities through self-help and sustainable processes.
Nuriah Iqbal
CEO
Born and raised in the UK, Nuria is a qualified UK solicitor specializing in corporate finance. After having worked for over 7 years with international law firms Norton Rose (London, Paris), and then White & Case LLP (London, Moscow), Nuria moved to Pakistan in 2004 and changed her focus to social welfare.
Nuria founded Labour & Love, a social enterprise (charity) working only with impoverished women in and around Lahore training them in handicraft skills, enabling women to work from home and earn an income. As part of Labour & Love, in February 2015 Nuria launched the “Iqra Project” aimed at raising funds for education of underprivileged children in Muslim countries by collaborating with different artists/artisans from various Muslim countries to create a range of products celebrating the word “Iqra”.
Talaal Burny
Founder of Travly App
Entrepreneur. Blogger. Dreamer.
Proudly & loudly vocalizing Mozilla's mission across Pakistan.
He was the speaker-host for Firefox Launch Event in Pakistan. An official Mozillian!
His first startup product, Travly was incubated at Plan9 - Pakistan's Largest Tech Incubator. Meanwhile, Travly has also been selected for esteemed forums including Startup Turkey, Summit Dublin, Startup Istanbul, SLUSH Finland & 1776 Challenge Cup (Washington). Incubation was followed by acceleration at PlanX - Pakistan's powerhouse accelerator program. Travly was crowned winner of ChallengeX Pakistan, NMAC 2015 & has been awarded Young Startup of the Year at Pakistan Startup Expo & Awards 2015.
Yousaf Bashir Qureshi
Art & Design
Yousuf Bashir Qureshi is a walking, talking dichotomy. A contradiction, a split, a disunion, maybe in the most beautiful kind of way. Yousuf Bashir Qureshi is a walking talking mystery. His personality is somewhat like a dichotomy, a disunion, he carries himself inversely, he wears sports a knee-length white tunic with a wrap-around lungi and to add to the look, thick silver bracelets, earthy Crocs and hand-made artistic bag. He has twinkly eyes and an easy smile, he is referred as bhudda baba by people for the way he carries himself. “I am a malang” says the father of three who attended the University of Nebraska and graduated in Food Sciences. After graduation Qureshi opened a fashion café in Lincoln, Nebraska, called the Silk Café, after the Silk route that runs along the Pakistani border. It was here that Yousuf learned the technicalities and craftsmanship of fashion design.
Zain Ashraf Mughal
Entrepreneur
A young entrepreneur and founder of Seed Out. It is a non-profit organization with a mission to fix the funding process by empowering people from all around the world to raise money for social cause and businesses.