Pehla Qadam - a small step

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These intellectually disabled students and KVTC staff deserve our encouragement, appreciation and help....

Our Trainees are routinely encouraged to start off with small tasks and are provided guidance every step of the way.

Good news for all who wants to contribute to the social cause by improving their economic conditions and get focused in basic . 1st batch of 2015, will comprise 100 from in . Classes will be held in June/July 2015. All interested living and / or working in are requested to inbox their requests / nominations. Registration will be on first come, first serve basis.

Ambreen Asif Qureshi Ambreen Qadir Ambreen Zaheer Shazia Maqbool Shoaib Ghaziani Faiza Yousuf Taman Qureshi Sohail Qureshi Mazhar Qureshi Nabeel Qureshi Madiha Hassan Maliha Naseem Sana Hanif- Hashim Sumayra A Khan Seema Chapra Zarrin Seema Siddiqui Saad Latif Sajid Ali Khan Obaid Chawla Abdul Wasay Syed Atif Hyder Swaleha Atif Arslan Ali Junaid Ahmed Junaid Jamshed Memon Professional Forum All Pakistan Memon Youth All Pakistanmemon YouthPoint All Baldia Memon Jamat Okhai Memon Youth Services

We create synergy...the CEO of Pehla Qadam - a small step , Ambreen Asif Qureshi has provide guidance and help to STS....we wish them all luck!

!!!!ALHAMADULILAH!!!!

"Street To School" joins with "All Pakistan Memon Women Educational Society" as "Raunaq-e-Islam Street to School (STS)". In this joint venture, we have planned to bring new ideas and their practical implementation for Street Children.

All Pakistan Memon Women Educational Society will help us by all means in achieving Street To School (STS) objectives and fulfilling our mission.

The first phase i.e the construction of our Garibabad Drop in Center has almost been completed with their support. Our next motive is to give admissions to 25 kids in Ranauq-e-Islam School's Montessori in order to hinder a new generation of street kids.

The team of Street To School (STS) welcomes "All Pakistan Memon Women Educational Society" in our board. IN SHA ALLAH our dreams will come true by our joint effort.

CREATING POSSIBILITY!

What is Social Entrepreneurship?

Social entrepreneurs create businesses to do social or environmental good. The concept of social entrepreneurship takes
its roots from the teachings of Robert Owen, a Welsh social reformer who created methodologies and elaborate designs to
create a more equal society. His objective was poverty alleviation and providing equal opportunities to all members of
society. He initiated the concept of cooperatives which is a group of organisations working together for mutual, economic,
social and cultural rewards.

The focus of conventional entrepreneurs and business entrepreneurship is to create new businesses in the face of risk and
uncertainty specifically for the purpose of achieving profit and growth. Entrepreneurship plays a pivotal role in the development
and wellbeing of the society. The eventual outcome of entrepreneurial activities is a lower unemployment rate, an
environment conducive for innovation and the growth of the economy.

Social innovators adhere to the basic tenets of entrepreneurship, i.e. taking risk in order to address a market need with the
addition of commercial and marketing strategies applied to bring about improvement in community wellbeing instead of
maximizing profits as in the case of business entrepreneurship. Whether constituted as for profit or not for profit, the primary
goals of social entrepreneurs are to achieve social or environmental improvement.

J. Greggroy Dees in his article ‘The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship’, 2008 defines that social entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs with a social mission, and because of this desire to bring about transformative change in society, they face distinct
challenges. They have a distinct and clearly defined social mission which forms the foundation for all their activities. Finances
are simply the means to an end and all their activities are mission driven and not wealth driven. The author stresses that
social innovation is about impact, and stresses profits should not be considered more important than the final social impact.
If a social entrepreneurship organisation is bearing huge profits but is unable to create a proportional social impact, it is
contradicting the very purpose of social entrepreneurship.

According to Nadeem Hussain - CEO, Tameer Bank, “The single largest need of the low income segment is access to capital
which they need to create or enhance their business. In the world of microfinance as little as Rs. 10,000 [$95] can make a difference in the quality of life of a borrower.”

Interview of Ambreen Asif Qureshi published by i-genius – World Community of Social Entrepreneurs, an international organization that promotes social entrepreneurship to a network in over 200 countries. i-genius has worked with a series of Universities and previously worked on projects with Channel 4 as well as being recommended by BBC’s The World Challenge.

Interview link: http://www.i-genius.org/eprofiles/pehla-qadam-ambreen-asif-qureshi-interview

Pehla Qadam | Ambreen Asif Qureshi Interview | First Step | i-genius Pehla Qadam' means first step. Pehla Qadam is an indigenous entrepreneurship training program for youth (aged 17 - 30 years) belonging to the marginalized

Hello, everyone!
Long time, no post...reason was my very tight schedule and commitments in other areas. But now finally I am done and READY TO SHARE a good news with you....

I am planning to start our Entrepreneurship Training Project for marginalized communities ON PERMANENT BASIS, and have started fine tuning the curriculum, team, short listing of areas where we will be starting...initially targeting 150 to 200 girls from Orangi, Shireen Jinnah Colony and Hussainabad

I request all to pray for the success of this kar-e-khair...JazakAllah

Pehla Qadam's next step...creating awareness about work being done for street kids by Azad Foundation and UNICEF

If—
BY RUDYARD KIPLING
(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
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Source: A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1943)

Oh my God!!! It turned out to be such a SUCCESS....ALHAMDOLILLAH.

MAIN AKELA HI CHALA THA JANIB-E-MANZIL MAGAR LOG ATE GAYE KARVAAN BANTA GAYA....feeling so happy and blessed!