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Sanam Vaziri Quraishi Foundation (SVQF)

The Sanam Vaziri Quraishi Foundation seeks to alleviate extreme poverty and inequality through tangible philanthropy: focused investment in education and practical solutions that produce concrete results. By inviting investor-philanthropists to participate in its work, SVQF organizes and optimizes funding for targeted philanthropic initiatives.

SVQF aligns with individuals and organizations that share the belief in targeted efforts yielding tangible results. SVQF invests in established, reputable programs with focused agendas. Each time SVQF forms a new partnership, the founders fund an initial project and observe the results first-hand, appraising the process and the product to ensure that it successfully contributes to the fight against extreme poverty. Once the organization has demonstrated measurable results, SVQF invites investor-philanthropists to join in renewing and strengthening its financial commitment.

In an unprecedented partnership with Free The Children, SVQF has fully funded a community development project for the Kipsigi tribal community of Salabwek in the Narok South District of Kenya’s Masaai Mara region. The project’s components consist of the construction and furnishing of 8 one-classroom schools, construction of community clean water sources, provision of essential health care services and medical supplies, and the establishment of an alternative income program. SVQF focuses on the health and education of Salabwek’s youth, because the success of a community largely depends upon whether or not its youth have the resources to flourish, mentally and physically. By constructing schools, wells, health curriculums, medical clinics, infrastructure for gender-equality and more, SVQF works together with local people to help them pull themselves out of poverty and flourish independently as a healthy community.