Transforming Youth from
Victims to Changemakers
Engaged
1200+
Educational & Vocational Institutions
Transforming
110+
Universities
Success
92%
Youth Teams Created Impact
Welcome to
YES Network Pakistan
YES Network Pakistan is spearheading a changemaking movement in the country. It is seen as a premier resource to unlock the changemaking power of young people. It is helping educational and vocational institutions to become changemaker campuses. It facilitates several hundred young people every year to begin their first-ever changemaking journey. It has invented a very simple, practical, and scalable method to turn young people into changemakers. It is creating a local and global community of change leaders who embrace a changemaking framework in their culture, programming, and operations.
Our Strategic Priorities
Activating Young People as Changemakers
YES facilitates several hundred young people every year to begin their first-ever changemaking journey.
Building a Changemaking Movement
YES is leading a movement to transform educational and vocational institutions into changemakers campuses.
Redefining Success for Young People
YES is presenting a groundbreaking new way to define success for young people, called changemaking.
Our Focus
We are living in a changemaking world. In this new world, the rule for thriving has changed from knowledge transmission and repetition to changemaking. It is a completely new game. No individual or institution can achieve greatness without practicing changemaking. Educational institutions have made the least progress to release the changemaking power of their faculty members and students. YES Network Pakistan is addressing this key deficit in educational and vocational institutions. It is trying to break down institutional barriers that prevent educational and vocational institutions from becoming changemaker campuses. YES believes that the key factor of success for any institution is what percentage of its faculty members and students are changemakers. YES is helping educational and vocational institutions to embrace a changemaking framework in their culture, curriculum, and operations.
Changemaking Intelligence Test
YES has invented a unique Changemaking Intelligence Test to measure the ability of students to produce social and economic impact in a wide range of environments.
More than 20,000 young people from 110 educational and technical institutions participated in the Changemaking Intelligence Test.
Intra and Inter-level
Changemaking Competition
Punjab Higher Education Commission and YES Network Pakistan join hands to launch the first-ever Intra and Inter-level Changemaking Competition in public colleges and universities of Punjab.
Global Recognition
President Bill Clinton met with Mr. Ali Raza Khan, Founder & CEO, of YES Network Pakistan in Washington, DC. President Clinton congratulated Mr. Ali for starting the “Youth as a Solution” movement in Pakistan and for creating a platform for underprivileged young people to realize their potential.
Ali Raza Khan is an amazing world pioneer in moving society to this very different definition of success in growing up. He demonstrated how thousands of poor young people, of whom little was expected, could almost immediately, if challenged respectfully, create teams and substantial changes and profits.
Founder, CEO Ashoka | William Drayton<
Ali Raza Khan’s work over many years to empower young people to make a positive difference in their communities through YES has been an inspiration to me and many others in the youth civic engagement field globally. With YES, Ali has tapped into an enormous reservoir of young people’s desperation to make a difference, rather than to exist in a state of despair. ”YES! Youth-led Changemaking” not only serves as a much-needed guidebook about effective programming, but it also describes Ali’s personal journey over the past two decades..,..
CEO, Innovations in Civic Participation (ICP) | Susan Stroud
“This is not only a splendid read about the author’s 21-year journey of working with young people, but also a spectacular and insightful book about the power of youth-led changemaking. As the president of a public leadership program that has engaged over 800 next generation youth leaders from 70 countries around the world, I have seen first-hand how employing unique youth-led changemaking models can transform outstanding young change agents into self-actualized, globally-minded public leaders and.... Learn More
Diane de Mailly Nesle Sauvé | President Jeanne Sauvé Foundation
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad met with Mr. Ali Raza Khan, Founder & CEO, YES Network Pakistan in Melaka, Malaysia. Mr. Ali was invited to participate in the Round Table of World Youth Leaders. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad appreciated Mr. Ali for starting the first Youth-led Changemaking movement in Pakistan.
Ashoka founder and CEO Bill Drayton recently wrote about his vision for a “changemaker world”—a place where problems can’t outrun solutions. He told a story about Ali Raza Khan, an entrepreneur in Pakistan, who tasked 6,000 poor students with starting successful ventures. He explains how, with little more than hearty encouragement, the students managed to develop the necessary skills and resources to achieve an 80 percent success rate. Imagine what would happen if we were to replicate Ali’s changemaker spirit among the 3.2 million American teachers in the United States....
Deputy Director for Education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Carina Wong
Testimonials
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Youth unemployment is soaring. Child abuse is increasing. New health challenges are emerging. Environment is being eroded. Elderly people are looking for basic health services. Young people are being brainwashed and blown away by drugs. Our educational institutions are struggling. It shows that we need a change and we need it urgently. We need to develop a new framework for our society. Our best thinking and our best efforts got us where we are today. Without change there will be no change. YES Network Pakistan is trying to build a society where everyone is seen as a solution and a major resource to bring change in society.
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