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HistoryThe two founders,Habibullah Karimi, an Afghan refugee living in Pakistan, and Chris Walters, an American small-business owner, decided to reinvest their profits back into the communities where they have been working, in order to promote education, particularly for women and girls. Barakat originally wanted to open its first school in Afghanistan, but the Soviet withdrawal and following Afghan Civil War left the country in too much turmoil to make this possible. Instead, Walter and Karimi turned their efforts to Attock, in Northern Pakistan, where a large number of Afghan refugees had settled, and began work on the first of the now three schools Barakat has in the country. When the Taliban was finally overthrown, Barakat moved into Afghanistan where it currently operates two schools and home-based literacy programs for girls and women.SpecialtiesBarakat runs multiple literacy programs and five schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan

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