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Awards, Press & Partnerships

A growing record of recognition and collaboration.

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Awards & Recognition

National recognition for our founder

Pride of Pakistan Award, 2023

On Pakistan Day (23 March 2023), founder Rukhsana Izhar received the Pride of Pakistan Award in recognition of her decades of work reducing hunger and supporting her community through the daily meal programme that grew into Rukh Foundation.

Rukhsana Izhar featured in Atlas Battery's Sparkistan 3.0 Unsung COVID Heroes

Sparkistan 3.0 — Unsung COVID Heroes

Atlas Battery · corporate recognition feature

Media Coverage

Independent coverage of the work

UrduPoint news video profile of Rukhsana Izhar

The story of the woman feeding 600–700 people a day

UrduPoint.com · news video

Conferences & Speaking

Sharing the story on stage

Rukhsana Izhar delivering a TEDxYouth talk at TCS Okara

A Journey of Hope, Education & Eradicating Hunger

TEDxYouth@TCSOkara · 16-minute talk

Documentary & Creative Features

Independent films about the community

Rukh Foundation Documentary by Ali Imran

Rukh Foundation Documentary

Ali Imran · independent documentary

Inflics News profile of Rukhsana Izhar

Meet Rukhsana Izhar

Inflics News · profile feature

Partners

Organisations we've worked alongside

Rizq's video profile of Rukhsana Izhar, From Home to Movement

From Home to Movement

Rizq · Real People, Real Impact, Episode 8

Peacemakers Pakistan video on a space-uplift collaboration with Rukh Foundation

Crafty DIYs and Space Uplift

Peacemakers Pakistan · collaboration feature

Research & Publications

Reports, case studies, evaluations and learning documents connected to Rukh's work.

Coming soon

Sources

Further reading & additional coverage