Depilex smile again foundation

1. DEPILEX SMILE AGAIN FOUNDATION
Laiba Aftab Malik (SP18-BPY-063)
Summan Zahid (SP18-BPY-047)
Marwa Khursheed (SP18-BPY-065)
Momina Shakir (SP18-BPY-012)
Simran Ali (SP18-BPY-070)

2. INTRODUCTION
 President is Musarrat Misbah.
 Established in 2005.
 Rehabilitate Female acid and burn crimes’ victims.
 Headquarter in Lahore.
 Working throughout Pakistan
 35 sub-branches
 562 patients

3. ACID AND BURN CRIMES’ VICTIMS
 Every year in modern day Pakistan, hundreds of innocent women are
intentionally burned by their husbands, brothers and other family members
for reasons that might be considered as basic human rights in a saner world.
 These helpless women fortunately still find a shimmer of hope such as that
offered by the “Depilex Smile again Foundation”.
 DSF has been supporting victims through medical treatment, psycho-social
support and vocational training so they can live their lives successfully.

4. SUPPORT AND GOALS
 DSF focuses on raising awareness against such attacks.
 DSF shuns the idea of granting money to victims rather focuses on helping
victims set up small scale beauty salons, accessory shops and even employ
them in Depilex.
 Main goal is to make these victims useful member of society.
 DSF arranges workshops to give these victims beautician training.

5. “Psycho Social Workshop for Acid Burn
Victims”
 Held on October 10, 2016
 organized by Depilex Smile again Foundation for the acid burn victims.
 Consultant Ayesha Chundrigar, Certified Therapist/Counsellor from CPPD
(Center for Personal and Professional Development) Counselling School, UK,
was engaged to hold a daylong session in Karachi.
 20 victims from Sind and Baluchistan were gathered to benefit from this
exercise.

6. CONT…
 The exercises were targeted to the commonality of THEMES:
 Self Image: draw a self image on a piece of paper.
 Trust Building: participants got into groups of 3 or pairs of 2 and shared
something personal about themselves with each other.
 Sharing: participants in groups shared the most painful moments of life,
followed by the happiest moment that they enjoyed the most.
 Positive Reinforcement: participants stood in a circle throwing a ball/pillow
gently from one person to the other and saying something nice about them in
the process.
 Nourish and Nurture: Musical chairs – important to nourish and nurture the
fun loving child in every one.

7. Psycho-social workshop for the rehabilitation
of the burnt victims
 Held on December 28, 2017.
 17 burnt victims from the province of the Punjab attended the workshop.
 One of the burnt victims Salma Arif hosted the event.
 During the event 4 burnt victims shared their success stories with the
audience.
 Purpose of this event was to raise awareness among the public about the
heinous crime of acid throwing and to encourage the burnt victims to build
their confidence so that they live their life as normal beings in the society.

8. OTHER WORSHOPS AND PROJECTS
 DSF organized a Prize Distribution Ceremony at the end of a project on
Monday 17th April, 2017 at Royal Palm, Lahore. The project was sponsored
by Philip Morris Pakistan Limited. Under this project, 50 burn victims were
provided with medical treatment, 4 psycho-social workshops were held in
Punjab, Sindh and KPK including 12 victims in each workshop, 12 burn victims
received beautician training out of which 8 victims managed to find
employment and 4 victims are now running their own saloons.

9. AWARDS
 As the President of Depilex Smile again Foundation, she is the first woman
from Pakistan who has been awarded by the Italian Government on Women’s
Day for her courage and commitment.
 Within Pakistan, In April 2010, she was also honored with the Presidential
Award for Pride of Performance.

10. PREDOMINANT SHORTCOMINGS
 Ms. Musarrat realizes that one predominant shortcoming is the lack of shelters
for patients that have undergone operations as they cannot return to their
families, who, in most cases, refuse to accept them in their fold.
“The socio-psychological well-being of these victims falls on us, since they have
no one willing to take care of them”, says Ms. Musarrat
 References:
o https://www.youlinmagazine.com/givingback/mussarat-misbah-and-the-
smileagain-foundation-hope-for-a-burning-world/MzA=
o http://www.depilexsmileagain.com/blog/psycho-social-workshop-for-acid-
burn-victims/
o http://tayyabazworld.blogspot.com/2017/12/depilex-smile-again-
foundation.html
o http://www.depilexsmileagain.com/

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