Our impact
Skills, counted one life at a time.
45,600+
Alumni trained
Young men and women who have completed a Hunar programme
16
Training institutes across Pakistan
66%
Alumni economically engaged
45,600+
Alumni trained
Each one is a household with a wage-earner it did not have before.
66%
Alumni economically engaged
Two in three finish training and go on to earn — not just to certify.
50%+
Female students
Half of every intake is a young woman with her own income.
50%+
of Hunar students are women.
In a country where female labour force participation is low, half of Hunar's students are young women training for paid work and enterprise — in beauty, fashion, digital skills, healthcare and the technical trades.
Meet some of themEconomic outcomes
Training that shows up in a pay packet.
PKR 12bn+
Annual alumni earnings
650+
Industry partners
3,150+
Google-certified alumni
Training → earning
How a donation becomes an income.
Four steps, in order, every time. Nothing here works without the last one.
- 1
Train
Hands-on, industry-relevant vocational and digital skills taught on real equipment.
- 2
Certify
Recognised qualifications and professional standards employers actually trust.
- 3
Connect
Introductions to employers, industry placements and entrepreneurship support.
- 4
Earn
Economic independence — an income, dignity and the ability to support a family.
Footprint
Where the workshops are.
Hunar teaches in the places young people actually live — from Karachi to a desert district in western Balochistan where the nearest alternative may be hundreds of kilometres away.
- KarachiSindh
- Tando AllahyarSindh
- LahorePunjab
- MultanPunjab
- BurewalaPunjab
- KharianPunjab
- Nok KundiBalochistan
Behind one number
Every statistic is somebody's Tuesday morning.
Hasnain trained in HVAC and now works for Sharqawi Co. in Saudi Arabia. He is one line in the alumni figure — and an entire family's change in circumstance.
Read Hasnain's storyEvidence & reporting
Where these numbers come from.
Programme figures on this site are supplied by The Hunar Foundation and reflect its work across its institutes in Pakistan. Full reporting is published in our annual report and accounts.
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