RIZQ is a non profit organization started by a bunch of university students from LUMS. You can contact me on Gmai bilal.professional786@gmail.com You can also contact me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bilalbakhtawar

1. Group Members
• Muhammad Bilal 140666
• Mian Salman Hassan 140684
• Abdul Zahoor 140729

2. Social Entrepreneurship

3. Social Entrepreneurship:
• Social entrepreneurship is a process by which citizens build or transform
institutions to advance solutions to social problems, such as poverty, illness,
illiteracy, environmental destruction, human rights abuses and corruption, in
order to make life better for many.
• According to J. Gregory Dees who is considered the Academic Father of
Social Entrepreneurship:
“Social Entrepreneurship combines the passion of a social mission
with an image of business-like discipline, innovation, and determination
commonly associated with, for instance, the high-tech pioneers of Silicon
Valley.” [1]
• The social entrepreneur harnesses entrepreneurship skills to do social good.

4. Entrepreneurship v/s Social Entrepreneurship:
• The entrepreneur’s final objective is wealth creation.
HOWEVER FOR
• The social entrepreneur, wealth creation is simply a means to an end.
The social entrepreneur participates in profit-seeking business
ventures only to use the profits generated to create valuable social
programs for the whole community.

5. Advantages:
• Implementing Societal Change
• Sustainable environmental development
• Poverty reduction
• Education
• Medical and health care
• Sanitation
• Creating Inspiring Solutions
• Working as Your Own Boss
• Creating Jobs and Income Streams

7. Rizq - ‫رزق‬
MITTA DEY BHOOK - Let’s End
Hunger

9. What is RIZQ?
• RIZQ is a non profit organization started by a bunch of university
students from LUMS.
• In a nutshell, they collect surplus food leftover from events, weddings
etc. and distribute it amongst those who really need it.
• More recently, they have also have begun to serve as a food
distribution channel for people who want to directly share food or in-
directly through monetary donations.

10. Idea behind Rizq:
• “On average, around 40% of food produced in Pakistan is wasted.
Food prepared for lavish dinners and weddings leads to a huge
surplus, while on the other hand much of Pakistan’s population goes to
sleep hungry. Rizq wants to bridge this gap by channelizing excess
food to the needy.” [2]

11. VISION
• “To rid the Pakistani society of the nuisances of hunger and
malnutrition by combating the problem of food wastage, promoting
awareness regarding healthy dietary habits, creating a transparent food
distribution channel by which those who want to directly share food or
indirectly through monetary donations can do so easily and lastly, by
making our target audiences self-sufficient.”

12. Inspiration:
• The inspiration for the initiative came from the trio’s mothers especially
Huzaifa’s mother Rukhsana Izhar. She cooks and serves food to hundreds of
people at her house every day.
• Ghar Ka Dastarkhan
• Operating in a friend’s house for nearly 8 years, the ghar ka dastarkhan was
the stimulus for them to start RIZQ.
• Apart from the home made food distributed at the dastarkhaan, a lot of
people used to come and donate extra leftover food from their events for the
needy to eat.
• Also they realized that a lot of people wanted to donate, but could not do so
because their was a lack of appropriate food channel.
• HENCE THEY CAME UP WITH RIZQ.

13. Objectives:
• Rizq has two primary objectives:
• To decrease food wastage that is rampant in our society.
• To feed under nourished people particularly children.

14. How it Works:
• Step 1:
• Target area identification.
• Advertisement of food drives on social media and website.
• Encouraging people to contact them if they have any extra or leftover food
items from parties or otherwise to donate.
• Step 2:
• Food collection from partner, bakeries, caterers and households.
• Quality Checking and sorting into small packages for easy distribution.
• Food packages distribution to mapped communities.

15. Distribution Mechanism:
• Divided city into sectors. The responsibility of each sector is given to a
volunteer, who lives within that sector.
• Donor calls us to pick up a food donation. Related sector delegate is
informed.
• The volunteers pick up any donation or leftover food from donors
within that sector.
• The volunteer than distribute the food, most preferably, to destitute
areas identified within that sector.

16. What have they done up till now?
• Hospitals visitation for distribution.
• Successfully established a food distribution channel.
• Gained donors trust & hence have been successful in establishing a
loyal donor base.
• Raising awareness through social media.
• Acquired Ufone’s confidence and support.
• Ahsan Khan Joined them as ambassador.

17. Constraints
• Time
As university students, balancing our academics and extra-curricular activities
with RIZQ does become a tedious task.
• Finances
Currently all operational costs are financed by the RIZQ care team. These
includes cost of fueling, packaging and storing amongst others.
• Manpower
Currently, the RIZQ team is small. Number of volunteers is increasing but
making time is not easy. They also realized that RIZQ cannot strictly be a
volunteer based NGO. Skilled staff needs to be hired to oversee the hygienic
packaging of food, for delivery, taking order correspondences amongst other
things.

18. Continuing…
• Delivery, Storage and Packaging:
A prompt delivery mechanism is required. Not all donations can be picked up
because the volunteers are busy with college. Food is a perishable good. Since
RIZQ aims to provide healthy food to the needy, the donations have to be stored
and packed properly. Currently all of this done in our homes. We want to make
the process more mobile. Funds are being raised to buy a fully equipped delivery
van, with refrigerators and packaging facilities so food doesn’t go stale.

19. What The Future Holds:
Short Term Goals:
• RIZQ hotline/UAN.
• To build awareness regarding issue of food wastage.
• RIZQ-E-RAMZAN
• To improve the food distribution channel we have created.
• Cater other sectors of Lahore & Isb and identify more destitute areas
amongst these sectors.

20. Long Term Goals:
• Build personal connections with the people living in slums, gain their
trust by going to the same areas over and over again.
• The process of getting rid of malnutrition is two-fold. First by
providing food, which RIZQ is already doing. Second, to promote
healthy and hygienic practices, which RIZQ aims to impart amongst
the people it targets.
• To make RIZQ’s target audience self sufficient. We are hoping that
once we have gained the trust of people by making personal
connections, we can give them employment with in the RIZQ
foundation.
• Expansion of the RIZQ initiative to other cities.

21. Founders:
• Huzaifa Ahmed
• Musa Aamir
• Qasim Javaid

22. About the founders:
• Three co-founders
• Two majoring in Economics and one in Business
• Specialize in Statistics and Data Analysis, Agro-Economics and
Marketing.
• They have worked with various Non-profits and development
organizations in Pakistan and are currently incubated at Social
Innovation Lab (SIL) in Lahore University of Management Sciences
(LUMS).

25. References:
1. Dees, J.Gregory. "The Meaning of "Social Entrepreneurship".” (8
June 2009)
2. https://lums.edu.pk/news/general-news/rizq-share-food

26. Thanks