Relief. Rebuild. Rise.
Our Impact
Give the Gift of Iftar This Ramadan
Your donations will help towards hot meals that will provide immediate relief and support towards emergency food packs.
Emergency Appeal: Gilgit Baltistan’s the forgotten villages
Your support will deliver lifesaving food assistance to these cut off mountain households.
About ARQ Foundation
ARQ Foundation is a humanitarian initiative established in 2024 to support underserved communities through practical, sustainable interventions. The Foundation focuses on restoring dignity, enabling self-sufficiency, and creating safe, nurturing environments for vulnerable individuals — particularly women, children, and the elderly.
Our work responds directly to gaps in access to food, shelter, healthcare, education, and employment opportunities. Rather than providing short-term relief alone, ARQ Foundation combines immediate aid with long-term empowerment programmes designed to break cycles of poverty and dependency.
Care & Compassion
Providing essential care through our care homes and support programs for those who need it most.
Community Building
Bringing communities together through our various outreach and development programs.
Sustainable Impact
Creating lasting change through education, sponsorships, and environmental initiatives.
Direct Support
From street to shelter programs to meal distributions, we provide direct assistance where needed.
Get in Touch with Us
We are always looking for volunteers to help more people and to work with businesses to help achieve their CSR targets
Our Work to Date
Emergency Relief & Community Support
- Heatwave Response (2024 and 2025): Distributed nutritious milk drinks and juices to approximately 10,000 people during periods of extreme heat.
- Food Distribution Programme: Provided meals to over 5,000 individuals in Pakistan focusing on homeless and economically deprived communities.
- Winter Support Initiatives: Supplied meals, heaters, and essential medicines to residents of old-age homes, orphanages, and vulnerable households.
- Ramadhan Food Programme (ongoing): Delivery of food boxes to carefully assessed families in need.
- We provided a livelihood support to a bereaved family following the death of the father, enabling them to generate a sustainable income and regain financial independence by purchasing a cart for them to sell fruits and peanuts.
Support for Women & Livelihood Development
- Project Satrangi : A women-led micro-enterprise initiative enabling women to generate income by selling essential personal goods through a community distribution model.
- Business Cycle Support to single women : supporting women to establish sustainable micro-businesses using a “women for women” model
- Tailoring micro-establishment: Funded and launched a tailoring shop for a rehabilitated recovering drug addict, providing a dignified route back into society through employment, prevented homelessness for him and his wife and children.
Child Education Support
- Identified families unable to pay school fees
- Successfully placed children aged 5–15 into schools, ensuring access to education and community support
Elderly Care & Safe Living
- Providing accommodation and care support for elderly women without family or male guardians, addressing a critical but often overlooked vulnerability.
Animal Welfare
- Rescue & Rehabilitation: Saved 20 abandoned kittens, arranged veterinary treatment, and provided safe housing — reflecting ARQ Foundation’s broader commitment to compassion and community responsibility.
Community Infrastructure
- Contributed to the development and restoration of a collapsed mosque, helping rebuild a vital local space for community connection.
Emergency Relief & Food Security
- Delivered food and hydration to over 5,000 individuals 2024 and 2025
- Distributed meals, heaters, and medicines to elderly residents and orphanages
- Provided food supplies to families and individuals with disabilities