Umair Asif

The Founder and Executive Director of Kafka Welfare Organization, Umair Asif uses sports to advocate against child marriages, and improve sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) education, as well as overall gender equality. These efforts have been recognized with Umair receiving the Make A Difference Award in 2013 from the British Council, named the Hero of Pakistan in the same year by SAMAA TV, and a Youth Leader by Women Deliver in 2018.

Umair’s work emphasizing the urgency of gender equality further includes articles he has authored on the importance of equal education and on the need to strengthen frameworks to eliminate child marriages.