Shahada is a registered Canadian non-for-profit society with a mission to improve the quality of
life of street-connected children around the world and ultimately to help save innocent young
lives. It seeks to provide abandoned or unwanted children a healthy living environment and
access to basic essential needs such as housing, healthcare, and education. Shahada’s work
started in 2006 in a rural town in Northern Pakistan called Chitral, helping unwed mothers
safely deliver babies in an area where, due to cultural norms, women were otherwise not
permitted to deliver babies in a hospital without a husband’s signature, leaving these babies
and their mothers with very low odds of survival. Shahada also provided families in the
community with opportunities to develop economic sustainability and to generate the money
required to pay for their children’s school fees. Shahada later expanded to providing support to
an orphanage in Morocco. Currently, Shahada is actively seeking a new opportunity to help
homeless or street-connected children in another area of the world increase their quality of life
and lifespan.