Founder & Visionary
Leadership"Together, we make a difference — not someday, but today, with whatever we have, wherever we are."
The woman who saw a world that needed changing and dared to build something about it. Doctor of Physiotherapy. Founder of WMD. The heart behind everything.
Some people talk about changing the world. Dr Sumbal Khan quietly went out and started doing it.
A Doctor of Physiotherapy by profession and a humanitarian by nature, Dr Sumbal Khan is the founding visionary behind We Make a Difference (WMD) — the person who not only conceived the idea but gave it its name and its soul. When she said “Together, we make a difference,” it wasn’t a slogan. It was a promise. And every initiative WMD has ever launched traces back to that original fire in her heart.
WMD didn’t start in a boardroom or with a business plan. It started with Dr Sumbal noticing a family whose ceiling had collapsed and deciding she couldn’t just walk past. That single act — reaching out, organizing help, fixing that ceiling — became the seed of something extraordinary. She gathered a few friends, pooled whatever they had, and said: “Let’s do something.” That was the moment WMD was born.
Those who have had the privilege of working alongside Dr Sumbal will tell you the same thing: she doesn’t lead with authority — she leads with kindness. She sits with families in their darkest hours. She remembers names. She checks back. She doesn’t see beneficiaries as “cases” — she sees them as people, as family. Her empathy is not performative; it is deeply, unmistakably real.
She has personally sat with patients in hospitals, comforted mothers who lost everything in floods, held children’s hands in orphanages, and motivated young volunteers who were ready to give up. Her presence alone has the power to reassure someone that everything will be alright.
While others built the operations, the logistics, and the structure, Dr Sumbal built the why. She defined what WMD stands for — that charity isn’t about pity, it’s about dignity. That helping someone isn’t a transaction, it’s a relationship. That every rupee, every hour, every gesture should come from a place of genuine love. This philosophy runs through every program, every campaign, every volunteer interaction at WMD.
As a Doctor of Physiotherapy, Dr Sumbal brings clinical precision and professional credibility to WMD’s health initiatives. But her healing extends far beyond medicine. She has an extraordinary ability to heal broken spirits, restore hope in people who had given up, and inspire action in those who thought they couldn’t make a difference.
In a world where many seek recognition for their charity work, Dr Sumbal has never once sought the spotlight. She doesn’t appear in every photo. She doesn’t take credit. But ask anyone in WMD — from the co-founders to the newest volunteer — and they’ll tell you: Dr Sumbal is the reason this organization has a soul.
She is the first to donate when a case comes in. The first to show up when disaster strikes. The last to leave when there’s still work to be done. And she does it all with a smile that makes everyone around her believe that kindness is still the most powerful force in the world.
Today, WMD operates across multiple cities in Pakistan, has served thousands of families, and has built a volunteer network of hundreds of passionate individuals — all because one woman decided that she couldn’t look away. Every food package delivered during Ramadan, every child pulled from the streets into a school, every life saved through an emergency blood donation, every tear wiped at an orphanage visit — it all began with Dr Sumbal Khan.
“Together, we make a difference” — she didn’t just name the organization. She lived it. She breathed it. She became it.
