Perween Rahman Biography

 

Full Name: Perween Rahman

Date of Birth: 22 January 1957

Place of Birth:  Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Dacca, Bangladesh)

Perween Rahman Biography:

• Perween Rahman was a Pakistani social activist, director of the Orangi Pilot Project Research and Training Institute.
• She belonged to a Bihari family which moved to Karachi following the civil war in East Pakistan in 1971.
• She obtained a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1982 at the Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, and a postgraduate diploma in housing, building and urban planning in 1986 from the Institute of Housing Studies in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
• She worked at a private architecture firm before being recruited by Akhter Hameed Khan to become Joint Director of the Orangi Pilot Project in 1983, where she managed the housing and sanitation programmes.
• In 1988, OPP was split in four organisations, and Perween Rahman became director of OPP-RTI (Orangi Pilot Project – Research and Training Institute), managing as well programmes in education, youth training, water supply and secure housing.
• In 1989, she founded the NGO Urban Resource Centre in Karachi[6] and was also part of the board of Saiban, another NGO dedicated to low-income housing, and OPP-OCT (Orangi Charitable Trust, the microfinance branch of OPP).
• She was teaching at the University of Karachi, NED University, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, all located in Karachi.
• She was murdered on 13 March 2013.

( Last Updated: 28 October 2021)