The Umeed Partnership is a charity registered in both Pakistan and the United Kingdom. Initially the charity set up and supported a project of embroidery training to offer opportunities for empowerment of women in the male-dominated tribal communities of western Balochistan, one of the remotest and poorest areas of Pakistan adjacent to the border with Afghanistan. The project has since been extended to slum districts of Lahore and to marginalised Hindu dalit communities in the Cholistan desert, where provision of education and vocational training in the form of carpentry and woodworking is also made for boys.