Engro Foundation

Engro Foundation is a not-for-profit trust headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan. Engro Foundation has been working since 2009 as the single entity of all Engro Group companies on corporate social responsibility to “align business development goals with social considerations to create shared value and positive economic impact.”

Engro Foundation provides access for local communities to “basic services, for example education, health, water, sanitation, and infrastructure” but also to medical assistance, skills development, technical training, and supports environmental conversation projects and sports.

Engro Foundation is certified by the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP).

History
Engro Corporation founded Engro Foundation in 2009 to ensure that the benefits of business operations can help solving issues that exist within Engro's value chains and the livelihoods of its immediate community.

Projects
Engro Foundation's initiatives are focusing on healthcare, medical assistance, education, skill development, environmental and biodiverse conversation, infrastructure, emergency response, and support and promotion of sports. Engro Foundation works with local communities in Sindh and Punjab.

Engro Foundation is engaged in various healthcare projects around its industrial network in Daharki, Qadirpur, Sukkur, and Karachi. In 2022, Engro Foundation's network of ambulant care clinics which includes an artificial limbs centre, a rabies centre, and a snake bite centre, catered over 100,000 patients in marginalised communities. Along with The Dawood Foundation the Engro Foundation disburses the funds of the Hussain Dawood Pledge, one of the biggest private donations and initiatives to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan.

Engro Foundation provides training and education initiatives, like free-of-cost education in schools across Sindh and Punjab, and skills development at the Technical Training College – the first Polytechnic institute offering a Diploma in Associate Engineering.

In its work on biodiversity conservation Engro Foundation collaborates with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Pakistan) for alternative income streams of fishing communities, educational programmes for sustainable fishing practices, and the conservation of the endangered Indus river dolphin.

In context of flood relief efforts Engro Foundation engaged in the 2022 floods but also supported flood effected population earlier.

Engro Foundation launched in 2012 "I Am the Change" to recognise local NGOs or activists who are working to enable positive, meaningful, scalable, and sustainable change in the country. Through a prise-money of the annual awards for individuals and/or organisations selected projects can scale up for broader impact.

Board of trustees and leadership
The Foundation is governed by a board of trustees, consisting of the top executives from Engro group of companies: Ghias Khan, Ahsan Zafar Syed, Jahangir Piracha, Sabrina Dawood, Eram Hasan, Yusuf Siddiqui, Nadir Salar Qureshi. The Foundation operates daily under the leadership of Favad Soomro.