Pakistán • Microfinanzas
- Sector: Microfinance
- Headquarters Country: Pakıstan
- Founding Year: 2009
- Operating Regions: Pakistan
- Employees: Data not available
- Founders: Fiza Farhan
- Problem Identified: Poverty, unemployed women, energy crisis
- Solution Offered: Baksh foundation is a microfinance institution that takes clean energy projects to the underprivileged and rural areas of Pakistan and provides Productive Loans, Transportation Loans and Clean Energy Loans (CEL) for poverty alleviation, enterprise creation, women empowerment and uplifting the general living standard of the under privileged.
- Social Impact: Has provided solar powered lights to around 6750 household all across Pakistan. It has also trained 135 women as energy entrepreneurs.
- Awards: 28 year old Fiza Farhan, co founder of the Baksh Foundation and one of the entrepreneurs in the Forbes under 30 list, has been appointed a member of the first ever UN Secretary General's high level panel on Women's Economic Forum
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Fiza_Farhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fiza-farhan-25135b12/?originalSubdomain=pk
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMt8NhzC_P0
- Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYfNk6se0HA
- Score: 7 Pesticide management service
- More Info: Buksh Foundation is making inroads in empowering women in Pakistani society as since its inception, it has focused on female empowerment and made its impact in generating projects focused on enhancing womens participation through the usage of technology, leadership skills, education and income generating activities. The Foundation is the first microfinance institution of the country to come up with the idea of providing Clean Energy Loans in 2011, with objectives of fulfilling the energy needs of small female enterprises and those women living in the rural areas of Pakistan. “We make female leaders and entrepreneurs. We do this by mentoring them and providing them the opportunities for generating additional income,” said Fiza Farhan, CEO.
