They were set up by Pakistani entrepreneur Mussarat Misbah.
She set the Foundation up after an encounter with a disfigured acid attack victim in 2003. Solvent Red 52
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.
Most have chosen to be trained as beauticians: they feel safer in the female-only world.
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.
Anthraquinone Acid Dye Anisha Zoya, an acid attack victim who works at the salon, poses for a photograph on November 26, 2014, in Lahore, Pakistan. (left, before the attack).