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Naya Jeevan launched
their Friends Chapter in Karachi at Faraar Gallery @
T2F , which was attended by many prominent professionals,
decision makers and academics including personalities
such as Farukh captain, Ishrat Husain, Qasim Rabbani,
Shahab Ghani, Aqeel Bilgrami and Aziz Khan.
Friends of Naya Jeevan
is launched with the aim to form niche bodies of individuals
across Pakistan helping to create presence for the social
enterprise among corporate entities and individuals
alike and to encourage more bodies to invest in quality
health care for their employees.
Naya Jeevan, translated
literally to mean ‘A New Life’, is a California-based,
not-for-profit, social enterprise, dedicated to nurturing
and rejuvenation of the lives of low-income families
throughout the emerging world with a specific focus
on South Asia. Naya Jeevan’s mission is to make
quality health care services accessible to a large segment
of society which earns less than PKR 15,000 per month
and is employed in the formal or informal sector. The
underlying belief behind the social enterprise is that
everyone has a right to equal benefits and adequate
healthcare. This novel social enterprise idea was conceived
by three individuals- Dr Asher Hassan, Saad Tabani and
Irum Musharraf and indeed won them NYU’s Social
Entrepreneurship Business Plan Award in 2008. Subsequently,
they went about the task of formally establishing Naya
Jeevan as a not-for-profit organization, with initial
investment from NYU worth $75,000 as seed capital. Naya
Jeevan has been honoured as a 2009 Draper Richards Foundation
award recipient accompanied by a $100,000/ year fellowship
for three years. Additionally, Naya Jeevan was a part
of the Clinton Global Initiative 2009, and was presented
with a certificate of recognition by former United States
President Bill Clinton. There are very few Pakistani-based
organizations that are recipients of this honour.
In Pakistan,
Naya Jeevan is patronised and supported by many multinational
and SME companies and continues to garner popular support
throughout the corporate, small to medium enterprise
and non-profit sectors. Naya Jeevan is determined to
bringing about this much-needed change in healthcare
and social services for the underprivileged across the
nation and has strategically designed the model to make
it easily scalable, sustainable, replicable and therefore
global. To register or to find out more about Naya Jeevan,
please log on to www.njfk.org.
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Mrs and Mrs nauman Ahmed, Seema
Rabbani, Ishrat Hussain, Qas
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Asher Hasan, Erum Ghaznavi, Nida
TTapal and Aziz Khan |
Erum Ghaznavi, Nida Tapal and Irum
Musharraf |
Jamal Mir, Shahzad Dada, Dr Ishrat
Hussain, Jalil Tarin |
