Pakistan
Economic DevelopmentKASHF Foundation - Create Economic Opportunities for Pakistani Women
Address
KASHF Foundation
19 Aibak Block New Garden Town
Lahore,
Punjab
54700
Pakistan
+92-42-111981981
http://www.kashf.org
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.
KASHF Foundation's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
 Shelter for Victims of South Asian Earthquake |
 Medical Care and Provisions to Earthquake Victims |
 Create Economic Opportunities for Pakistani Women |
Personnel Overview
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.
Personnel Statistics
Roshaneh Zafar, Founder
Founded in 1996
Employees: 1,102
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
