ABOUT BAITHAK

Baithak - Challenging Taboos is an award winning youth led, women led organization that works for gender justice especially girls’ and women’s access to their sexual and reproductive health and rights in Pakistan. Most of our work is centered in grassroot communities and hard to access areas in Pakistan especially rural Sindh.

HOW IT STARTED

The idea and name of Baithak originated from the rural communities that our founder, Ayesha Amin was working with in 2018. When she returned to Pakistan after her Fulbright Master’s degree, she started conducting focus group discussions (FGDs) in rural communities of Jamshoro to understand the needs and challenges of the local women in accessing their sexual and reproductive health and rights. 

Women started calling these FGDs ‘baithaks’ which is a Urdu word meaning ‘sittings’ or ‘gatherings’ of people. These FGDs soon converted into safe spaces where women would come together and talk about issues affecting their health. And this is how curiosity and passion for SRHR evolved into an organization – Baithak.

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OUR VISION

We envision a world where every girl and woman has freedom and resources to exercise her bodily autonomy, sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice.

OUR TEAM

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OUR ADVISORS

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