Aliha has been working in the education industry and corporate sector for quite some time now in the capacity of Human Resource Manager, Career Coach, and Community Development Specialist. She has also worked on some community development projects i.e. Restore the Nature, Amal fellowship program, and Stress Saviours Society. Stress Saviours Society is her ongoing project related to mental health counseling. She started her professional journey with P-TEVTA, the largest skill provider in Punjab- mostly in rural areas, as a Project Manager and Talent Acquisition Head. There she organized a large-scale internship program with 87 interns from both public and private institutes to work together on different projects such as Application Development, Web Development, and innovation to name a few. Additionally, she also counseled them for their future roles based on their expertise. The future Leader internship program was a huge success and was the first-ever large-scale internship program launched by any government department.

Her diverse range of experiences enabled her to realize that our youth have a lot of untapped potential and skills but they lack the art of effectively presenting them to the recruiter. Consequently, she joined Amal Academy (NGO), affiliated with Stanford University and sponsored by Pepsi Co., which works for the betterment of people, especially youth. This was the platform where she could assist the young mind of Pakistan to groom themself according to the corporate world standard. Being an HR Professional, she has a deep insight into the importance of such programs, particularly for the freshly graduated students, who are a step away from their destined future but lack in branding themselves properly for the job market. However, after joining Amal Academy, she strongly believed in the importance of getting such counseling to end up in the right organization based on students’ customized skills and preferences. These services were provided to the students from public universities at the minimal cost of 2000 rupees. As an initiative of the 3 months of Amal fellowship, the students were also asked to be part of social work i.e. raising funds for the Edhi Foundation and doing the fellowship final project on a social cause. In the meanwhile, she realized the importance of mental peace for students. Most of them struggled in concentrating on their careers when they were mentally exhausted and burnt out since they did not have an accessible avenue to seek mental health-related help. This is when Stress Saviours Society came into existence. it is a startup that provides comprehensive virtual mental health services by professional psychologists at a minimal cost to youth, especially university students.

My team and I aim to expand further into introducing some stress-relieving online courses and stress checkers via online applications and websites. As part of the Stress Saviours Society, we have conducted several health camps, blood donation drives, and ration distribution activities in the rural areas of southern Punjab. We have also planted more than 250 trees in different areas of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under the banner of our local initiative “Restore the Nature”.