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However you serve, live true and brave

MTF envisions a healthy and sporty world where girls get equal opportunities to play & perform & get fair chance to realize their full potential as equal members of the society.

Every child should be free to play and learn in peace

True humanist. Athlete activist. Loving daughter.

Meet Maria

Maria Toorpakai Wazir is not just a sportsperson, but a true pioneer of female sports in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region becoming the first Pashtun female athlete. She is a ray of hope and role model for girls around the world. She showed guts to stand against Taliban, Militants and has blazed the trail for girls in her country, Pakistan. Today, Maria has become a symbol of true courage, resilience and perseverance.
Learn more about Maria’s journey. >

The will to change the game. The power to change the world.

Current Project: Toorpakai Sports School

First of its kind ‘‘Sports School’’ for girls and women of

Pak-Afghan region

Nahed Samy Elhusseiny

TSS Project Advisor/Architect

Maria Toorpakai speaking with Sophie Trudeau (Honorable First Lady of Canada) about the importance of sports for girls and her plans on building first of its kind Sports School for girls and women of Pak-Afghan region to bring true empowerment

The Maria Toorpakai Foundation, Inc. is a New York Not-For-Profit Corporation with tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(3) public charity. Donations to the Foundation are deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law.

I want to tell girls fear is taught, you are born free and brave.