An avenue where generosity meets opportunity.

Whenever people think of Khayaban-e-Khwahish, one face comes to mind: Murtaza Saquib not because he claimed the role, but because of the ambition that made others want to follow. He didn't just imagine the organization; he named it and carried it through fundraising, planning, procurement, and execution until it became one of Lahore's most well-established student-led NGOs. As Executive Director, he still runs it hands-on, in every department raising over PKR 2 million while keeping a full 100% donation-to-welfare ratio, no salaries, no overhead. Behind the scenes, Murtaza designed and built the organization's website himself, and still runs its backend as spokesperson, planner, and builder. In the pool, he sprints fifty metres chasing the pace of Phelps much like how he leads Khayaban-e-Khwahish, alternating sprints with the long, unseen distance of daily work. For him, it's never been abstract it's personal, a way of giving back what shaped him.

Murtaza Kazmi builds both organizations and the first thing anyone sees of them as a founding member of Khayaban-e-Khwahish, he designed its logo before the organization had a following. From there his role grew outreach that turns cold conversations into support, and a key part in fundraising built on how naturally people trust him. Design and outreach share one instinct. That instinct shaped Bachat Baat, a Khayaban-e-Khwahish initiative he conceived and now oversees a bilingual financial literacy platform for low-income, low-literacy communities across Pakistan, covering salary management, savings, scam awareness, and basic insurance and Zakat education, built on the belief that access shouldn't be a privilege. He's also Co-Founder of Cliq Interactive and Closet, an AI company. Off the clock: an eye for art, a love for coffee, a weakness for cars (Mercedes above all), and work with YouTuber Wildlens by Abrar. Style aside, he cares about the cause.

Every organization has a beginning, but few have a spark. For Khayaban-e-Khwahish, that spark was Co-Founder Ajwad Azhar. Ajwad gave the organization its jump start: not just a plan, but the belief that it could work, tested and proven through the Flood Relief Project 2025 and Project Helping Hand, initiatives that came to define what Khayaban-e-Khwahish stands for. Walk through almost any part of the city, and someone knows Ajwad. A network built through years of showing up, building trust, and connecting people to a cause bigger than any one of them makes him the organization's natural spokesperson. What sets him apart is the range: by night, producing music; by morning, a philanthropist coordinating relief and rallying support. Different instruments, same purpose. Behind it all is an ambition: to make the world a better place. For Ajwad, philanthropy was never a side project; it was always the main one.

Behind every ration bag delivered, every truck loaded before dawn, and every list that balances at month's end is a name rarely on the banner: Faiq Farooq. Faiq didn't arrive at Khayaban-e-Khwahish looking for a title; he arrived looking for work that mattered, and did all of it. As the mind behind our content, he gave the organization its voice. As the hands behind Ramazan Drive 2026, he carried its weight, planning, running procurement, and executing on the ground when pressure was highest. When Monsoon Drive 2026 began, he was already in the field, doing the unglamorous work that turns an idea into relief for a real family. His rise from Finance Co-Director to Head of Directorate was less a promotion than recognition of what everyone had already seen. Faiq is the person who stays until it's done, quietly setting the standard the rest of us measure ourselves against.

Age has never measured what someone can carry, and Hamdan Tahir proves it. One of the youngest members in Khayaban-e-Khwahish, he has already become one of its biggest assets, moving into a directorate role in a fraction of the time it usually takes. What sets him apart is his range: he produces music, shoots photography with a real eye, plays synthesizers like second nature, and handles videography that could pass for someone twice his experience. That talent is matched by a deep philanthropic instinct and genuine ambition for the people of this country, not just the projects in front of him. He has already proven himself under pressure, winning an entire competition at the LUMS music fest at a strikingly young age. It all traces back to his motto: "creating things I wish existed." Talent brought him in, but his passion, courage, and potential explain how far he's come, and how much further he'll go.

If Khayaban-e-Khwahish had to take the shape of a person, it would look like Qasim Jameel — innocent at first glance, sharp underneath. As Head of Graphics, he gives the organization its visual identity, but it's what he brings beyond the screen that people remember most: he cares before he's asked to, he does what's right even when no one's watching, and his loyalty to this mission has never once wavered, thankless work and all. He's the rare kind of all-rounder reliable in a crisis, sharp with a design, easy company in a room. Outside the organization, his discipline shows in a different form entirely: a calisthenics habit bordering on obsession, chasing the kind of physique that takes David Laid as the benchmark. Innocent, sharp, and built for the long haul on paper and off it.

Every organization needs someone who can see two steps ahead and knows when a risk is worth taking. That's Hussain Naeem. Beneath the planning and the instincts is a simple ambition: to make the world a little better for the people in it, one carefully thought-out move at a time. He plans with the future in mind, bets on the moves others hesitate over, and takes on the complications no one else wants to touch — the crucial, unglamorous problems that decide whether something actually works. All of this comes wrapped in a sharp, put-together presence, fitting for someone who can quote Suits line for line and has never quite recovered from watching Harvey Specter close a deal. Sharp instincts, sharper wardrobe, and an advisor who thinks in chess moves, not checkers.

Some people work for the spotlight. Arham works away from it — no cameras, no credit, just the numbers and the work. As Head of Finance, he manages every fund and every fundraising effort almost single-handedly, and he's earned something harder to give than a title: the trust of everyone around him. When money is involved, his name is the one people don't second-guess. On the court, he's a different kind of precise playing tennis like he's chasing Federer's ghost, all control and calculation, the same instinct he brings to a balance sheet. Numbers or backhands, it's the same gift: seeing three moves ahead and never missing. And then there's the detail that sets him apart from everyone else in the room; a genuine obsession with perfumes, and the kind of knowledge about them that turns a casual conversation into an education. Quiet, exact, and impossible to replace.

When it comes to bringing donations in, Wali Masood has a mind built for it — always working an angle, always pushing to raise a little more than the last time. He's not someone who sits behind the numbers either: from being part of the fundraiser itself to being present on-site when the work happens, Wali does it all, front to back. What makes him stand out most is simple — he's been here since the start, and he never stopped showing up. That kind of commitment doesn't fade, and it's made him one of the organization's most valuable members. Friendly by nature and well-connected by habit, Wali has a way of turning a conversation into a relationship, and a relationship into support for the mission.

Some people wait for things to fall into place. Mustafa Iqbal goes and finds the opportunity first. As Director of Logistics, he's the one behind the scenes making sure everything actually moves from getting team members where they need to be, to getting an entire project's supplies from point A to point B without anyone noticing how hard that actually is. It's a role built for someone who doesn't wait to be told what's needed. Off the clock, he's got Sidhu Moose Wala on repeat and a gym session with friends that's as much about the company as the workout. He knows people — in the city, and well beyond it the kind of network that makes a phone call solve a problem faster than a meeting would. He's humble about all of it, the type who'd rather make the room laugh than take credit in it. He isn't always around but when he shows up, he makes sure it counts.