Startup Directory
Little Joys by Hira
Little Joys by Hira is a small startup founded by Hira Faryal, a WILL Training participant at Women University Swabi. Little joys by Hira is a resin and clay business shaping your imagination into reality. Hira is one of the winners of the Idea Design Competition which was held under the FCTEW project. These resin and clay items designed by her not just help you look presentable but make your loved one feel special with little joy.
Hope Wear by Shadab Mehar
Pakistan’s Fashion industry is vibrant and is now gaining ground in the world’s fashion arena. To create a niche in this industry, our seed grant winner Shadab Mehar at Women University Swabi founded her clothing brand by the name of “Hope”. Her excellent stitiching skills and creativity allowed her to produce high-quality and cost-effective fashion wear for girls and kids.
Sip n Ship Cafe
A team of students from Women University Swabi namely Fatima Murad, Hefza Noor, Pakeeza Noor, Khadija Aziz, and Aqsa Nawaz came up with the idea of opening a cafe within their university’s premises. At this cafe, our grantees provide high-quality, fresh, and organic food within affordable prices. To promote women empowerment, the cafe hired women caterers, cashiers, and employees. They are focused on prroviding good atmosphere for students to sit back and enjoy their meals after a hectic day. The Sip n Ship Cafe takes orders for university events and it aims to provide services in university hostels too. The menu includes biryani, chana chaat, macroni, sandwiches, juices, coffee, and tea. The cafe timings are 9:00 am to 3:00 pm from Monday to Friday.
Waqt Pay Delivery Service
Delivery Service:
Swabi is one of those cities in Pakistan where male members of the family are out of city/country to earn money. And it is very difficult for women to go out alone to buy groceries, entertain their guests, and to pay their utility bills. To solve this issue, WILL training participants at Women University Swabi came up with an idea of launching an instant home delivery service to deliever food, medicine, grocery, vegetables, pet care, baby care, and women hygiene products. They hired bike riders to deliver the products. Initially, earning from delivery charges was adjusted in fuel. Therefore, “Waqt pay” service facilitated household women and satisfied their desired need.
Feminine hygiene products:
Women University Swabi has a large number of students living in hostels. Feminine hygiene products like menstrual pads and panties are majorly unavailable for students on campus. In cases of emergency, students usually have to face a lot of difficulty in arranging these products. Therefore, waqt pay delivery service provides emergency sanitary products to the students on a monthy basis.
Haya Cab
Mobility is the prerequisite to accessing goods and services, such as health, jobs, education institutions. The challenges women face when it comes to mobility are inclusion, safety and accessibility in the transport sector. Safety and security are of primary concern for any human being especially for women. At the same time, women are at higher risk of being a victim of violence in public transport system.
The idea of transport service, titled as “Haya Cab”, addresses all the concerning issues. The service of Haya Cab ensures the protection of females by providing safe service. The design consists of a monitored system through hiring of trained drivers and installation of security cameras. Creating a safe environment and ensuring financial independence of women is the ultimate motto of the Haya Cab. Comfortable journey through door step pick and drop and air conditioning and heating system, safety through proper oversight mechanism, a better service with normal cost, inclusion of women through easy access to workplace, economic independence by providing opportunity are the objectives of this service.
Bukhari Diagnostics
Swabi has a women population of 49.69% yet it remains a male-dominated district. In the light of the district’s cultural norms, health care facility remains largely unavailable for women. Women in Swabi struggle to get equal opportunities in health and education. Due to low socioeconomic condition and literacy rates, women face gender-based harassment. They are often beaten and threated to be divorced if touched by male doctors or healthcare workers. Women are not allowed to visit a doctor without male guardian. Realizing this, FCTEW Seed grant winner Nain Taara Bukhari at Women University Swabi who had worked as a senior researcher took the responsibility of catering the healthcare facility at women’s doorsteps. She launched a startup by the name of “Bukhari Diagnostics” that empowers women/female students through mentorships and also provides quality service of diagnosis at affordable price at the door steps of women. This venture equips students with technical skills to create the clusture of females who work for the improvement of productive health. Data about the prevalence of diseases is collected that helps physicians to prescribe antibiotics to timely manage preventable diseases and to reduce emergence of multidrug resistance.
Student entrepreneurship is encouraged which serves health needs of women and children in terms of quality service in diagnosis. Moreover, doctors and healthcare workers have been taken on-board to reduce the emergence of drug resistant strains due to blind therapy.
