The Awakening pioneered the first Women Council in Pakistan. The women are now successfully taking part in counseling and mediation processes and fighting for their rights. The group successfully organized the mohallah peace committees and mothers, lady teachers, and councilors are being trained in skills including peacemaking, trauma counseling, conflict management, and conflict resolution. These groups provide counseling to survivors suffering from trauma while working in their professional contexts to further disseminate the knowledge that they have gained from this project.

For the first time in the history of District Swat, women from religious minorities were included in the mohallah peace committee and were members of the organization’s general body. Further, the grant from the Martín-BaróFund supports the transgendered community of District Swat, one of the most vulnerable communities which suffers great hardships during the armed conflict.

With its renewed funding, The Awakening will establish a friendly space for the depressed, traumatized people of District Swat with the main objective to protect the victims of fear and trauma by providing psychosocial support, medical aid and recreational, educational and structured leisure activities that will provide the victims with life skills to protect themselves through their own and the Council’s ongoing advocacy efforts.