Ten founders.
The inaugural cohort.
The inaugural Friends of Pakistan cohort spans mental health to special education, AI-powered legal aid to gamified curriculum. Each leader passed a rigorous selection — then redesigned for millions.
The fellows
No. 01 / 10Dr. Rubeena Kidwai
Taskeen Health InitiativeMental HealthCoordinators triage every caller with AI support; a licensed psychologist takes a structured 40-minute consultation.
No. 02 / 10Azima Dhanjee
ConnectHearDisabilityA hearing person speaks into the app; SILA, their sign-language AI, signs back. A Deaf user signs, and SILA turns it into voice and text.
No. 03 / 10Habiba Banu
SpiroHealthEvery adult diagnosis points to exposed children. Staff visit the home, screen everyone, and start preventive treatment there.
No. 04 / 10Lala Rukh Fazal-Ur-Rahman
Science FuseScience EducationTeachers get sustained training and a stream of bite-sized experiments built from cheap local materials.
No. 05 / 10Khushbakht Shah Jillani
Mehfooz AILegalA chatbot checks her safety first, then prepares her complete court-ready divorce file. Certified lawyers review it before filing.
No. 06 / 10Maira Siddiqui
Chiragh Education TechnologiesEducationBubbly, an offline voice tutor, speaks Pashto, Punjabi and Sindhi, so a child who cannot read yet can learn Urdu and math.
No. 07 / 10Adnan Qureshi
Teach the World FoundationEducationSolar-powered classrooms, adaptive learning games, and locally hired women facilitators bring school to villages that have none.
No. 08 / 10Muhammad Waqas
WonderTreeSpecial EdA child plays clinically designed exercises as AR games on any phone or laptop; progress reports write themselves.
No. 09 / 10Ali Siddiq
Amal AcademyLivelihoodsStudents get three months of real workplace practice, embedded in public universities and taught by faculty Amal trains.
No. 10 / 10Osama Shahid
Soby Agro MachineryAgricultureSoby adapts proven small machines to Pakistani crops, sells them farmer-direct, and teaches farmers to run them profitably.