E04 Building Pakistan with Ms. Seema Aziz (SEFAM, Managing Director/Co-Founder)

Building Pakistan with Benje Williams

Ms. Seema Aziz is the Cofounder and Managing Director of SEFAM, where she took one small fashion retail shop she started in Shadman Market Lahore in 1985, and built it into of Pakistan’s largest fashion retailers with over 450 outlets throughout 3 different regions of the world and currently 12 different brands, including Bareeze, Leisure Club, Chinyere, Working Woman, Minnie Minors and 7 others. She has done this while also starting and growing CARE Foundation into one of Pakistan’s largest education NGOs, blossoming from one school that she planted in 1991 to over 860 schools that they are operating through out the country today. She’s a true serial entrepreneur who has done an unbelievable amount for this country, despite all the odds and the skepticism and the discouragement and the challenges and the frustrations. And she is still plugging away, meeting each day with a relentless work ethic and faith, facing road blocks with her beloved smile her and infectious energy, and continuing the journey with a never take no perseverance, and there’s really so much to love, admire and learn from her. *Building Pakistan is brought to you by the team at Amal Academy (amalacademy.org), with support from +Acumen (plusacumen.org) as our distribution partner. Illustrations and production editing are by Awais Farooq (Amal Academy). Music is provided by Danny Roberts (dannyroberts.com), Lydia Cole and Ryan Baxley.