“At SABAQ, we aim to make education in Pakistan accessible and fun through our engaging learning apps for kids. By 2020, we aim to educate one million students across Pakistan.”
Under the INSTAL Project, SABAQ created a proprietary, customized, KG-5 digital learning…
The Citizens Foundation, one of the country’s largest education non-profits, has been…
SABAQ implemented its content in Punjab Education Foundation schools from January 2017…
2015
Championing for Girls’ Education
2015
Building Life-long SABAQ Readers
2015
Third Time’s the Charm!
2016
Digital Content in Public Primary Schools
2016
Making Learning Fun
Adnan Asdar is the president and co-founder of SABAQ. He also serves in the advisory capacity on a number of not-for-profit organizations primarily focused on providing education and health services. He is a core member of the Executive Council Board for the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, The Citizen’s Foundation (TCF) and Indus Hospital.
Hassan Bin Rizwan is the CEO and co-founder of SABAQ. His idea was to build a sustainable model for impoverished communities to help out-of-school children learn through technology. Under his leadership and guidance, SABAQ has grown from a small startup to an enterprise, creating educational and entertaining digital resources under its umbrella.
SABAQ bags the 2nd spot in the Education category at Pasha Awards 2019.
The Pasha ICT Awards honors companies at the cutting edge of technology innovation. They recognize the achievements, creativity, and excellence of home-grown Pakistani innovators in the field of Information and Communications Technology.
SABAQ has the honour of being the first and only Pakistani startup to become the Siemens Stiftung epAward 2019 finalist. From a pool of 800 enterprises from 86 countries across the world, SABAQ made it to the top 11.
The award by Siemens Foundation recognizes and endorses low-technologies providing crucial services and solutions for the daily needs in developing regions.
SABAQ won the fifth edition of the ‘Transformers Roadshow’ competition organized by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB). The organization will be providing 4 Pakistani innovators, researchers and entrepreneurs seed capital and business skills.
SABAQ will be participating in IsDB’s annual innovation and technology conference in Senegal later in 2019. We will be showcasing how we have used technology in education to create incredible impact.
This was one of our greatest breakthroughs. SABAQ was recognized as one of the top 6 Global EdTech Startups at the Next Billion EdTech Prize at Global Education and Skills Forum in UAE.
800 startups competed for the big prize. SABAQ was the only startup representing Pakistan at the big stage. It was, indeed, a proud moment for all of us!
SABAQ’s work was recognized globally when we were nominated as one of the Top 40 EdTech startups from across the world at the Global Education and Skills Forum in 2018.
‘Next Billion’ EdTech Prize is awarded to innovative and promising technologies that have far-reaching impact on education in low income communities. SABAQ was the only Pakistani enterprise to have received the honour.
SABAQ, along with 19 other South Asian organisations, was chosen to be a part of SPRING Accelerator’s 4th cohort. As part of the cohort, SABAQ worked with outstanding human-centred design experts from fuseproject and a SPRING helmed consortium to develop sustainable solutions that empower adolescent girls aged 10-19 putting them on a path to becoming strong and confident women and leaders.
SABAQ became a permanent member of GlobalGiving – an online crowdfunding platform for not-for-profit organizations. On this platform, SABAQ initiated a campaign to raise funds to provide Education Kits to children learning through SABAQ’s technology.
Through rigorous online campaigning, we successfully raised over $7,500 for the purpose of providing supplementary Education Kits.
SABAQ has also been the proud recipient of the Education Innovation Award at the National Innovation Awards in 2017.
The National Innovation Awards acknowledge and promote cutting-edge and contextually relevant innovations (and innovators) from across the country. It is a great initiative bringing forward new innovators and startups from Pakistan.
SABAQ received the award for ‘Best Digital Innovation’ at the Pakistan Digi Awards, for showing the greatest development over the preceding year based on growth, innovation and impact by a developing innovative business solution.
The Pakistan Digi Awards acknowledge companies and enterprises transforming the digital landscape in Pakistan.
