Annual Report 2024–2025
From youth-empowerment training to wheelchair distribution and a new solar-powered Resource Centre, here is what AKWS delivered this year.
210
Registered members (130 male, 80 female)
300+
Youth trained in digital skills
800+
Participants in soft skills sessions
1,500+
Beneficiaries of the Resource Centre
1,000+
Wheelchairs distributed
22
Students on active scholarships
Key Initiatives & Milestones
Funding: USIP
The USIP-funded Youth Empowerment Project — Empowering Resilient and Combating Extremism for Sustainable Development of Chitral — delivered 10 digital skill training cohorts (300 beneficiaries), 50 soft skills sessions (800+ participants), and 4 community-building activities reaching over 1,000 beneficiaries.
Funding: Diplomatic & development partners
AKWS hosted esteemed foreign delegates, including representatives of the Canadian High Commission, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the German Ambassador, and the UN Golf Team, showcasing its impactful initiatives and discussing potential collaborations for sustainable community development.
Funding: AKRSP & AKWS
The solarization project was completed through a co-finance model — 30% AKWS and 70% AKRSP — to ensure uninterrupted, sustainable power for the co-working and Resource Centre space, and was inaugurated by the Assistant Commissioner, Upper Chitral.
Funding: USIP
The Digital and Conventional Library was formally opened in a ceremony attended by Roziman Shah, a renowned Chitrali-American businessman, and many community members — a key educational resource promoting learning, digital literacy, and knowledge-sharing for the youth of Chitral.
Funding: Niaz Support
With the support of Niaz Support, AKWS carried out a large-scale distribution of customised wheelchairs across Upper & Lower Chitral, from Asherait to Yarkhoon Lasht, covering almost every valley except Laspur in Upper Chitral — ensuring dignified mobility for 530 persons with disabilities in this reporting period alone.
Funding: Niaz Support
A continuing scholarship and health support program for children of parents with disabilities across Upper and Lower Chitral. 22 students are currently enrolled, representing institutions including AKES, FCPS, Alkhidmat, and Oxford Public School and College.
Funding: AKRSP
AKWS produced and facilitated a series of community awareness dramas with theatre groups from Upper Chitral, addressing social, financial, digital, and economic challenges — using theatre as a culturally rooted medium for public awareness, dialogue, and behavioral change.
Looking Ahead
Upgrading the Resource Centre to engage and facilitate more students
Continuing digital, job, and soft skills programs
Youth-centered research
Scholarships for deserving youth
Promoting volunteerism among youth
Youth internship opportunities
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