History

Celebrated Human Rights Day with 49 women at Kaarvan Waniawala Center in Gujranwala. Through the interactive activities we confronted societal stereotypes of good and evil around everyday objects and concepts such as education, home, security, rallies, etc.

Assessment of economic, social and living conditions of Women-Home Based Workers (WHBWs) in Gujranwala Division, along with potential of their integration into the formal economy.

Kaarvan becomes seller on Daraz. Selling unique handcrafted products by the design team at Kaarvan in collaboration with rural artisans.

World Humanitarian Day With Netherlands Multitalented Artist/ Entrepreneur/ Life Coach Tamara Robeer and 25 women who team worked to unlock out of hypothetical catastrophe and envision new modes of life What would a GENDER JUSTICE WORLD look and feel like?

Craft Sector Trainings in Kalasha Valleys funded by SDC in collaboration with UNESCO and Kaarvan Crafts Foundation carried out design aesthetics handicraft workshops with objective to enhance skills, aesthetics, and introduce market linkages to Kalasha artisans.

30 Female Micro-Entrepreneurs from Multan crafted “1 Rupee” dreams. Women stretched their minds and actively created & discussed “What could they do to make money if they had to start with absolutely nothing?”

A framework that aims to provide a series of soft skills/social skills in alignment with the International Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to expand Pakistani Female Artisans personal capacities to act with others for socially constructive purposes.

Kaarvan Team participated in Beacon House National University’s Nothing Fest by exploring what is ‘Between the Blank? Women from Gujranwala and BNU students open up the blank by connecting with one another through creative expression.

A weeklong of interactive workshops was held at 5 districts of Punjab: Gujranwala, Nankana Sahib, Kasur, Sheikhupura and Bahawalpur — a great gathering of change makers as Punjab Commission on the Status of Women and Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan also joined us alongside women artisans — as we discussed the idea of justice, fairness, inclusivity and participation through interactive activities with rural women.

Kaarvan &LUMS’s society Hum-Aahang collaborated and discussed the interaction between public spaces and human rights. How do we, THE CITIZENS, utilize, transform and reclaim spaces in our daily lives? What are the commonalities and differences of “claiming” space in urban & rural areas?

Eighty Pakistani female artisans from far-flung villages of Lahore, Bahawalpur, Vehari, Lodhran, Multan Kasur, Gujranwala, Nankana, Sheikhupura are tap ping into opportunities and global economy via Aanganpk.com. Kaarvan Crafts Foundation and Samsung are taking technology to the grassroots!

Skills enhancement trainings of 1320 women, while 60 Micro-Entrepreneurs have been trained in both conventional and digital market linkages via collective learning workshops where field experts from relevant organizations come address rural communities’ challenges and opportunities of scaling-up.

500 Women Stitchers – trained in Skills For Market Linkages – sustaining themselves and their 25 Business Hubs in rural areas of Kasur, Nankana Sahib and Sheikhupura – with both local community and market orders from vendors.

Kaarvan collaborated with Aitchison College in their annual 2017 Art Fest using art as medium for creative expression and social awareness regarding gender responsibility. Through the informal set-up of photo-booth and a giant paper scroll spread across the table – the prompt asked participants: If you could bend a gender rule…what would you do?

Bridging the distance between urban and rural women through creative workshops held at multiple institutions such as Training Institute in Kasur, BNU and LUMS. Mainstreaming a gender perspective through radio, social media engagement and press releases.

Building on top of previous learnings of market linkage interventions. Working with British Asian Trust to help identify learnings of what works and what does not work at regional and international level of development work.

Expanding the area of work into family based livestock farming. Six project-associates provide such training in the regions of Okara, Kasur and Nankana. Educating best diary and livestock farming practices to 3,000 female trainees.

Built one of its pioneer Training Institutes. Realizing the necessity for an ongoing process driven vocational center, the Institute has been established to house courses for the Apparel industry.

Life skills and Business Management Training to enable women to become self-sufficient market players and work as micro-entrepreneurs.

In collaboration with the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan, the Market Linkages project has turned out to be extremely successful in giving the women an opportunity to sell to high quality markets. This has led to talented women capturing market shares in the apparel industry.

1520 women trained in market skills. 60 women linked to the market. Established skill development centers in 2 districts, 225 villages with 240 trainers.

1500 women trained in market skills. 60 women linked to the market. Established skill development centers in 2 districts, 225 villages with 225 trainers.

Outreach initiative in the rural districts of Bahawalpur and Lodhran. Training women in the skills of mukesh, tarkashi, product planning and leadership.

The Pathways and Purse-strings project began with the aim to enable 8000 rural women with skills and market knowledge to sell their products in urban markets.

A small group of dedicated professionals gather around the idea of gender responsibility and economic participation as a social enterprise.