KASHF Foundation

Mission

To provide cost effective and quality microfinance services to poor women, by adding value to women’s existing economic opportunities in order to enhance their role in economic and social decision-making. At the same time Kashf aims to lead to a sustained improvement in clients’ incomes in order to enable them to move beyond the poverty trap.

Programs

We advance microcredit for income generation and consumption purposes to low income households. We also provide business capital to small and medium enterprises. We are currently piloting the home improvement loan aimed for people who need money for small repairs/improvements to their households. All of our loans are insured i.e. in the event of a client or her bread winner's death, the loan is written off hence we also provide microinsurance.

Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Providing microhealth services to 10,000 families

Personnel Overview

Ms. Roshaneh Zafar - Founder
Zafar got her B.Sc. and BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her Masters at Yale. She worked at UNDP and the World Bank. She met Muhammad Yunus at a conference on Women and Economic Development. He later sent her a plane ticket to Bangladesh to study the Grameen Bank model. In 1996, Roshaneh Zafar made the step from a development thinker to a practitioner by starting Kashf.

Mr. Khalid Kabeer - CFO
Mr. Kabeer is a Chartered Accountant and he completed his articleship with Ferguson’s. After a few years in the private sector, he joined the Kashf team in 2003 as Manager Finance and has very quickly spearheaded many innovations in financial risk management within the organization.

Mr Nabeel Khan - Research Associate
Nabeel Khan did his undergraduate in the field of economics with a focus towards the development sector . Prior to joining Kashf Foundation, he did internships in the Rural Support Programs of Pakistan and undertook field surveys to gauge the impact of decentralization in Pakistan. After joining Kashf he has been handling product development and monitoring at Kashf.

Personnel Statistics

Roshaneh Zafar,
Founder
Founded in 1996
Employees: 1102
Volunteers: 0

Financial Statistics

Budget (2006): $ 7,750,000
Budget (2005): $ 2,000,000
Maximum Budget: $ 7,750,000
Overhead: 24 %
Other funding sources: Donations/subsidized and commercial Loans
Religious Affiliation: No