Admiral (R) Mohammad Asif Sandila NI(M)
Patron, Moawin Foundation
Admiral Mohammad Asif Sandila NI(M), born: 1954, is an Admiral retired. He was 19th Chief of the Naval Staff of Pakistan Navy. He is recipient of various prestigious national and international awards including Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military) and Chevalier de II order National Due Merit for rescue of French nationals in Maldives during Tsunami in December 2004. He has taken the oath as the Chief of the Naval Staff on October 7th 2011. He has retired from active naval service on 7th October, 2014. Admiral Sandila is a keen golfer and fond of book reading. He has founded Moawin Foundation (a Not for Profit Organization) with help of like-minded friends. Aim is to improve standards of education and provide vocational training for boys and girls in rural areas of Pakistan.
Mahmood Ahson
Director
Dr. Mahmood Ahson began his career as an executive trainee and subsequently held several senior roles in various organizations. In 1987, he moved to the USA, where he completed his M.S. and Ph.D. from Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1995. Dr. Ahson then spent several years teaching at leading universities in the USA, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
His passion for business again brought him back into the world of private enterprise. Dr Ahson worked in senior positions with Barclays Bank, Halifax Bank of Scotland, Yell Limited and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
In 2008, Dr Ahson established his own Chartered Accounting Firm, Accentor Associates Limited, which has grown significantly since its start. It employs eight people and serves customers across various areas, including tax planning and enterprise startups.
Dr Ahson has been involved in community development and charitable activities for over 3three decades. He was President of the Pakistan Australia Society of Adelaide in 1997 and Chairman of Quest for Education U.K. from 2011 to 2018. During this time, he led significant fundraising campaigns for the education sector in Pakistan
Bilquis Mahmood
Director
Bilquis has been a Trustee of Dash (a domestic abuse charity)for over 16 years, supporting people experiencing Domestic Abuse in communities and is a volunteer for Age UK (a charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life) for the past five years. She works for National Grid as a Community Relations Advisor, developing and delivering community and stakeholder engagement strategies to help build and protect National Grid’s brand and reputation on construction projects. The projects are usually disruptive in communities, so there is a need to create an understanding and acceptance for the work to take place. Bilquis brings her knowledge and expertise in developing relationships with local communities, stakeholders, and corporate organisations.
Mr. Kashif Khan
Director
Kashif has an extensive senior healthcare management experience from reputable healthcare establishments across the world spanning over 15 years.
After his MBA in Healthcare Management from a London University, Kashif worked for over a decade in the UK National Health Service (NHS) at a senior level including the world’s prestigious Cambridge University Hospital (CUH) Trust. He has a successful track of hospital management and clinical service configuration as well as workforce planning and system integration. His interest in digital health is to explore and develop new methodologies and approach for a broad range of healthcare challenges in diagnosis of diseases, to managing population health and treatment.
In Pakistan, Kashif has worked on various healthcare system strengthening projects in KP and Sindh provinces. He was part of the expert team which led development of Service Delivery Standards for the Healthcare Commissions as well coordinated disaster planning. He also taught MBA students at local universities in Lahore.
Kashif joined SDSB as the Executive in Residence (Healthcare Management) in 2020.
Tanveer Choudhary
Director
Tanveer feels blessed to have joined Moawin Foundation as one of the founder trustees of its subsidiary Moawin Foundation UK .
After completing her MBBS medical degree from a prestigious university in Lahore , Pakistan , she relocated to UK , where she has pursued a successful career in NHS as a General Practitioner in Buckinghamshire. Amongst juggling professional and family commitments, she would be involved in welfare activities both locally and overseas. She provided voluntary medical services to those injured in the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir Pakistan , refugees stranded in Calais during Syrain crisis and visiting holding camps in Italy for people fleeing persecution in their homeland, to name a few of her pursuits. Since retiring from the NHS, Tanveer has been spending more of her time both traveling and supporting charitable causes, two activities very close to her heart.
Hina Ahsan
Director
I feel honoured to be a part of this wonderful community, joined in hands to support Moawin Foundation and to take its dream forward.
Hina has been in uk for the past 23 years . After completing her degree & working as a Fashion Designer back home, she switched to interior design in London but the heart was still with its people in Pakistan and that resolute to her being in constant touch with various charities helping to improve the lives of our countrymen.
After raising fund for a small charity in Islamabad for the kids education in slums, she soon realised that the only way forward for our country is education, hence she worked with other bigger charities like Read foundation.
TCF & Rashadabad to help raise funds for the construction of new schools and institutions for the underprivileged. Hina then went on to support other humanitarian organisations like orphans in need & GLT in health sector and worked with few others like Ghrf, to help the needy back home and lately had an opportunity to raise funds to establish an Islamic college in Cambridge with CMC for the better future of Muslim students in the country.
My contribution towards these great projects has usually been to raise funds from this part of the world and making sure that the money reached & served its purpose back home.
I still consider myself to be a learner & would love to engage more by contributing my time and energy to help Moawin foundation in whatever capacity I can.
