Roshaneh Zafar

Roshaneh Zafar is the recipient of the Vital Voices 2010 Global Leadership Award for Economic Empowerment. The Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards honor and celebrate women leaders who are working to strengthen democracy, increase economic opportunity and protect human rights around the world.

When she first founded the Kashf Foundation, Pakistans first microfinance institution to focus exclusively on low-income women, Roshaneh had 15 clients today, she distributes microloans to over 300,000 women. In her work, Roshaneh doesnt just empower these individual women, she empowers their families, their communities, and their whole society.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• pakistan
• microfinance
• women in business