About Us
The Minazi Impact is an engineering social enterprise in the UK. Our mission is to reduce gender inequality and create sustainable social
impact.
Our Theory of Change
Innovate for Impact
Produce Sustainably
Elevate and Empower
We design and produce innovative, sustainable and affordable products to empower women and girls around the
world
We build local capacity through sustainable
supply chains and
infrastructural buildings
We holistically create
change through
education, training
skills and job creation. We are also passionate about enhancing leadership potential
Founding Purpose
“To accelerate our progress to gender equality we need innovative products, engineering solutions and designs. But social progress cannot be considered in isolation –
We need to consider sustainability at all stages. We need a systems approach to change. And moreover, we need to make sure women are empowered to be part of the solution. We can do this by closing the skills gap, accelerating engineering leadership, and creating opportunities that allow all genders to thrive.”
Aakeen Parikh MEng PhD FRSA
Founder and Director
According to the UN, it will take 131 years to eliminate gender equality. Our mission is to get there in 50.
Why Minazi?
We are really passionate about sustainable development! At Minazi, we believe that truly impactful solutions have economic and environmental sustainability at the forefront of design. We’re a certified social enterprise registered in the UK with a global outreach.
Holistic design approach
Our design approach circles around impact. We look at the impact we want to have, our methodology to get there and assess our model against the impact we have achieved – this ensures we are always on track to achieve maximum change.
Environmental focus
Our designs and solutions consider the impact to the environment from the beginning, taking into account the life cycle before critical design decisions are made. This allows us to maximise environmental sustainability and protection.
Innovation with simplicity
We believe that the best innovation is often the simplest. To do this, we follow system thinking approaches that ensure that we are not just looking at the most direct stakeholders but we’re also considering the entire ecosystem of the problem itself.
Our values
Humanity
The essence of our mission is humanity. This helps us unite people and nations and helps us see the world with compassion
Conservation
We believe in conservation of our planet, it’s resources and our natural environment. We embrace sustaining and protecting our natural world.
Equality
We believe everyone deserves an equal standard of living and access to basic amenities. We’re passionate about helping achieving this basic standard of living for everyone
Innovation
We embrace creativity, think beyond current norms and drive change by applying innovative approaches. We believe new ideas have the power to change the world.