Alizey was exposed to poverty from a very young age, growing up in a city where half the population survives on less than $2 per day.
Alizey was exposed to poverty from a very young age, growing up in a city where half the population survives on less than $2 per day.
In 2016, Alizey established the RUHIL Foundation, an organisation with the goal of ensuring nobody would go hungry in her city. In order to combat food poverty, the RUHIL Foundation has delivered 5,500 monthly food parcels and 10,000 meals. However, Alizey soon realised the multidimensional nature of poverty and felt providing food alone wasn’t enough to break the cycle.
She pivoted to also focus on education and shelter, raising over $150,000, as well as financing 200 weddings, distributing 600 sanitary pads, providing 1,100 blankets in winter, disbursing 1,000 interest-free emergency loans and providing monthly stipends to 25 transgender people and widows.
RUHIL Foundation has reached out to sex workers, orphaned children and transgender communities, while also raising awareness of period poverty. These are all taboo topics in Pakistani society, and by assisting these communities she has normalised interaction with them within the community.
Alizey has helped provide education to 150 children of sex workers and is an honorary fundraising director for Begum Inayat Welfare Society, an orphanage which houses 77 children.
Alizey is considered a role model for many in Pakistan. She is extremely resilient and persistent in her striving for social justice.
