Amal Career-Prep Fellowship

Amal helps Pakistani youth build bridges to their career aspirations. We're a professional development institute that develops skills fundamental to pursuing your dreams.

WHAT: Stanford University funded 3 month training to develop professional skills beyond university lectures, needed for a job/internship

WHO: Third/ final year students or anyone looking for a job/internship now or later

WHY: 2000+ Amal alumni with 80% job offer rate over our past 58 fellowships

WHERE: PU, UET, Amal Campus (opp Gym Khana), UOE, UVAS, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, and others
 
 

Application & Instructions

Frequently Asked Questions
 
 
 

Fellows' Testimonials

The fellowship has been described by many of our fellows as the most defining experience of their educational journey. Every fellow gets to make his/her own favourite moments in the program where you can have sneak peek in the video below:
 
 
 

Our Team

Benje Williams (Cofounder, CEO) has supported entrepreneurs through various roles at Acumen Fund in Pakistan, Kenya and India. He has launched an education IT center in the Nairobi slums, and has worked as a management consultant at PwC in New York, at Dalberg in South Africa and at TechnoServe in Kenya.
He holds a MBA from Stanford University and a BS from UC Berkeley.

Ali Siddiq (Operations Director) has 10 years experience in strategic planning, program management, marketing, operations, and customer engagement. He has worked at The MathWorks, American Airlines, Amazon and has been working in the education sector in Pakistan for the last 5 years. He has served at Punjab Education Sector Program, Salamat School System and as CEO of Institute of Professional Learning.
He holds a BS from the UET, Lahore, an MS from the Ohio State University, and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.

Sarah Farooq (Program Manager) has worked at Pakistan Microfinance Network and UN Women, UN Global Compact in New York and at a startup (Sanergy) in Kenya. Through these experiences, she has realized the incredible potential of youth for a better future and the power of investing in that potential.
She completed her Masters from Fordham University on a Fulbright scholarship and her BSc from Lahore University of Management Sciences.

Laura has spent 7 years in project management, consulting, logistics and the service industry, primarily at a premiere airline in Latin-America. She joined the Amal team in Lahore as a member of the Global Fellowship program from Acumen.
She is from Colombia and completed her BSc in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and her masters in Strategic Project Management from 3 different universities in Europe.

We believe in building a team that believes in building a brighter Pakistan. A team that believes that an educated and employed youth is the critical foundation to achieving that future. A team that agonizes over how incomplete Pakistan's education system is but finds ways the system can be made better.

If you think you could be a part of this team, click here to learn more.

 

Our Investors


The Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University has provided us with seed capital through the Social Innovation Fellowship.

Acumen has supported us through seed capital, in-kind investment through their Global Fellowship, through their regional fellowship, and more.

Echoing Green is a NY-based venture that provides seed funding to social enterprises.

Advisors and Growth Partners

 
 
 

A Word from Stanford University

As Amal Academy has been funded by the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University, you can read more about the project on their official website here!
 
 

Join Our Team

 
 
 

Amal Academy
259/B, Khizar Road
Upper Mall Lahore (Opposite Gym Khana)
+92-42-35958687