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LAHORE: Young Pakistani, Zain Ashraf participated and stood first in a global competition held between participants of 39 countries and bagged the United Nations ‘ Champions for Change Award’. During the Corona pandemic, Zain Ashraf aimed to help the needy and deserving people and make them stand on their feet with satisfaction and pride.
He is the founder of ‘Seed Out’, a non-profit crowdfunding group, which works to end poverty by establishing micro-entrepreneurs through interest-free micro-financing.
His organization provided around 1,400 families with interest-free loans to help them establish their own start-ups and helped over 4,000 school dropouts to resume their education.
In 2018, he won Commonwealth Youth Award, which recognises outstanding young people whose innovative projects and programmes have had a significant impact on their communities.
Zain is a member of the Prime Minister’s National Youth Council and was also named in Forbes Social Entrepreneur under 30 list.
Since 2014, the organisation has raised 350 entrepreneurs, selecting and pairing micro-entrepreneurs with a business based on need, suggest official statistics.