Mrs. Ammara Farooq
Malik graduated from Kinnaird College, Lahore in 1997. She
got married as a law student, after which she completed not only her law degree
and a Masters in Politics from the University of the Punjab but also an LL.M.
from the University of London in the midst of having two children, juggling her
professional life, her continuing education, her passion for writing, her
passion for making a home and above all, her daughter’s severe blood disorder
and eventual bone marrow transplants.
In November 2008,
she founded the Seeds of Education,Policy & Legal Awareness Association. In
January 2010, she became the President and C.E.O. of the SEPLAA Foundation
which has its social media think tank: the Seeds of Education, Policy &
Legal Awareness Association (SEPLAA), becoming a growing positive institution
for bringing Pakistanis together on a global platform to discuss health,
environment, empowerment, socio legal reform in Pakistan and for promoting the
positive image of Pakistan internationally with chapters in the U.K., U.S,
Canada, India and U.A.E.
As a mother,
charged by her daughter Amal’s ordeal and the lack of bone marrow
transplant facilities in Lahore, Mrs. Malik collaborated with the San Matteo
Hospital in Pavia, Italy to bring the same facilities that saved her daughter,
to the leukemia and Thalassemia patients in Lahore. She gives free guidance to
patients of blood disorders and those who require bone marrow transplants.
She is also a
strong advocate of the SEPLAA health awareness campaign ‘Save a life, save a
generation’ in which she coined the slogan promoting the importance of pre
marital blood screening in couples to help avoid Thalassemia, HIV and
Hepatitis, and speaks on various media channels and educational forums to
discuss the same.
Mrs. Malik has
over thirteen years of professional experience as a law professor, social
entrepreneur, entrepreneur, leadership and communication skills
trainer, freelance journalist for The Express Tribune and has free lanced
opinion and legal articles to several newspapers. She is also a High Court
Advocate who has practiced as a corporate lawyer, is on the Advisory Board of
‘The Jurists’, an Indian Socio Legal academic organization, and is presently
the Managing Partner in Wyne Malik Consultants, a development consultancy.
She is also the
Editor-in Chief of ‘Impact SEPLAA’ and is on the Advisory Board of the SEPLAA
Young Leaders’ Club.
Mrs. Malik is
also presently directing the development of the International online training
workshop on ‘Peacebuilding and Conflict Management’ in collaboration with the
New York University to empower youth in Pakistan.
Mrs. Ammara Malik
regularly gives seminars and speeches in conferences on ‘leadership’ and ‘women
empowerment’.
