Charter for Compassion’s British-backed partner organization Mumkin
Mumkin’s work involves empowering and mobilizing underprivileged females, gradually putting them in a position to be agents for change in their communities. We not only acknowledge the injustices in our society that women face, we are currently in the process of taking the next step by making sure something is done about these injustices.
Mumkin operates in disadvantaged communities such as Lyari, Landhi, Orangi, Korangi and Sultanabad. Following sufficient success in the aforementioned districts of Karachi, we will look to bring our initiative to the rest of Sindh, including other poverty-stricken localities throughout the province. It is a unique initiative consisting of Fashion design, Entrepreneurship and Personal development training, specifically targeting women who have been marginalized and making sure that they acquire vital skills such as Computing and Dress making.
Whilst working very closely with Aman Foundation, Mumkin offers training to approximately 80 women. Our set up consists of six month training courses across three learning centers with an estimate of 75 females, including teachers and housewives from the ages of 19-45 years old.
We bring training directly to our students in order to work towards alleviating their socio-economic limitations and giving them a social platform in their communities where we aim to instill our core values and principles. Our main focus lies on emphasizing compassion, gender equality and the notion of redefining the status of women in our society through promoting female empowerment and self-sufficiency among women.
Female empowerment starts with raising awareness about women and paving the way for their success. It is therefore key for us to create an environment that allows women and other marginalized groups in our society to relinquish control and challenge existing socio-economic power relations and gender stereotypes.
According to compassionatekarachi.com Karachi will be the most populated city in the world by 2030 and is a fragmented society with fast depleting resources. In response to this, Mumkin seeks to break barriers and defy norms by normalizing altruism and generosity through compassion. Compassion is contagious and our movement prides itself on being the torchbearers of social change and Women’s rights in Karachi. Thus our primary objective is to look to pull together to encourage the rest of society to follow suit, as without this compassion our female clients would not only be constrained, our society as a whole would become even more economically polarized and would not sustain the constant growth we have seen over the last decade or so.
We are fully aware that women differ to men and being a women in our society comes with certain expectations which can hinder the independence and social mobility of our clients. We hold the belief that if you can do the job just as well or even better than your male counterpart, you should not be discriminated against or brushed aside. Charter for Compassion has created inclusive, female-friendly spaces like the one at the Mumkin centre to make sure that the talents of disadvantaged females do not go to waste.
Many of our clients have exceeded their own expectations and have gone on to earn a very reasonable salaries. Our Mumkin project trainees now feel like they can achieve almost anything because Charter for Compassion has them covered. By reaching out to us they have made full use of this once in a lifetime opportunity with a significant number of them going on to work for some of the market leaders in the Pakistani Fashion and Beauty industry. This is serves as proof that with projects like Mumkin, Charter for Compassion leaves nobody behind in the pursuit of giving underprivileged Pakistani females some hope.
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