There Are Beauty Salons In Pakistan For Women Who Have Suffered Acid Attacks
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They were set up by Pakistani entrepreneur Mussarat Misbah.
posted on Jan. 9, 2015, at 12:24 p.m.
In the centre of this picture is Musarrat Misbah, the founder of the Depilex Smile Again Foundation.
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She set the Foundation up after an encounter with a disfigured acid attack victim in 2003.
She told Barcroft Media:
As I was about to leave my office, a young girl walked in and she was wearing a veil and she asked me to help her and I thought maybe she’s one of those girls who’s asking for financial help and support. I asked her to come the next day as I was going home and then she removed her veil and that was the day which changed my life.
She added: “The girl in front of me was a woman without a face. She had lost her eyes, she had lost her nose, her neck was contracted to her chest.”
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Her foundation works with acid attack survivors. It provides them with medical and psychological care, and helps them again to reintegrate into society.
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She has helped around 600 women in the last decade.
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Most have chosen to be trained as beauticians: they feel safer in the female-only world.
Misbah told Barcroft:
On average they need to go through 25 surgeries to make them look better and then I also realised that giving them surgeries is not helping their misery, is not helping their pain because they are left to rot in their houses like vegetables.
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