Impact
Stories of Change
What changed for the people and communities SIA works with, programme by programme. Every story keeps to what the people in it agreed to share.
Stories
Change, programme by programme
7 stories
FeaturedWomen’s enterprise500 women, 100 enterprises: the first phase of WEDP
With the Women Development Department, Government of Balochistan, SIA trained 500 women in the first phase of the Women Entrepreneurship Development Program, incubated 100 women-led enterprises and saw PKR 20 million awarded in seed grants.
- women trained in Phase 1
- 500women trained in Phase 1
- women-led enterprises incubated
- 100women-led enterprises incubated
- awarded in seed grants
- PKR 20Mawarded in seed grants
Women entrepreneurs across Balochistan
Youth & educationBalochistan’s first STEAM & Robotics Lab
Balochistan’s first STEAM lab, at Government Sandeman Higher Secondary School in Quetta, and the province’s first hands-on STEM and robotics bootcamps. The lab was recognised in 2025 by…
Students and teachers, Quetta
Youth & educationStudents solving problems in their own communities
In the Young Changemakers Program, Pakistan’s first 10-week social entrepreneurship course for high-school students, students find a problem in their community and pitch a social enterprise that solves…
High-school students
IncubationA university incubator in Loralai: CEUL’s first cohort
The Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Loralai (CEUL), the first university incubator in Loralai, incubated 16 startups in its first cohort.
Students and young founders, Loralai
Agribusiness & climateWomen farmers adding value to what they grow
Under the EU-funded Revival of Balochistan Water Resources Program, SIA worked with Women Farmer Management Committees in 4 districts on value addition, water stewardship and market linkages.
Women Farmer Management Committees, 4 districts
Crafts & creative economyFrom Quetta to Riyadh: SIA’s first international training
In August 2026 SIA won its first international training contract: a five-day leather craft workshop in Riyadh that qualified 25 Saudi men and women, for Arweqah Alreyadah Company.
25 Saudi trainees, Riyadh
EcosystemA network for social enterprise: SENPak launches
At SIA Summit 2.0 in Islamabad on 28 April 2026, with more than 300 policymakers, entrepreneurs, investors and youth leaders, SIA launched SENPak, Pakistan’s first social enterprise network.
Social entrepreneurs and investors
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Every programme, with its results
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