I'm looking for a lady offering cooking classes in CDA Islamabad (not Rawalpindi or DHA).

Either a proper institute that teaches women to cook/bake or just a lady who takes students in her home to teach. Google not offering much, can someone tell me who they know? Group classes are preferred but private classes are OK too. Not looking for online classes.

Looking for women who can teach a variety of cuisines like Pakistani, chinese, continental, italian, etc.

No budget.

I'm about to graduate from university. A guy I know approached me and asked me for marriage. I thought about it for a few months and agreed that I can let his parents meet mine.

He has good Islamic character, is trying his best to become financially stable, and seems emotionally caring.

But when I told my parents about him, she said I'm too young to get married right now. I'm 23 years old and he is 22. She said I don't yet know "ghar kese sambhalna hai." She said I'm not yet trained on handling in-laws yet.

My mother herself married at 26 in the 1990s. In the 1950s, my nani married at the age of 27. My daadi got married in the 1960s in her late twenties. So basically, none of the maternal figures in my life support me getting married at 23. They want me to wait til I'm in my late twenties.

I don't know if I'm being naive or my mother is. I think my mother is working off of assumptions that may not be true.

For example, she thinks a woman should be an expert cook before marriage or she will be diminished by her husband. However, the guy who asked me for marriage knows very well I have very little experience cooking. He said he himself is a good cook and has been cooking for years. I told him I can't expect him to take on both the financial and domestic burden of the household. I don't believe in fixed mindset i.e. that I'm a bad cook. I'm willing to learn but just don't have experience right now. We discussed domestic chores and their division and how to handle failures on our sides.

My mom also holds assumptions about his family that aren't necessarily true. I come from a family of private sector entreprenurs and his comes from massive landowners in south Punjab. My mother holds stereotypes about south punjab landowners e.g. they are all people who are stuck in land disputes, their lives are interwined in nepotism, and they are uneducated with regressive mindsets.

I asked the guy who asked me for marriage if its true and he said its not true for his immediate family.

Not sure who's being misguided, naive, or something else here.

#1 Paid projects for students with useless degrees

Pakistan has many graduates with degrees that have no direct industry work e.g. BA English, BA Anthropology, etc. Either these people try to move abroad, or remain underemployed somehow. There is a huge untapped potential for selling a better life to these graduates looking for work. The demand is in the tens of thousands.

Create a skill-building institute where you train these graduates in industry-relevant skills for 6 - 12 months. Not low-barrier work like call center but degree-adjacent. Niche skills that typical western graduates with BAs don't have.

Companies (esp start ups who can't afford western employees) pay your business to complete a specific project for them. Your business supervises the student as they complete the project to guarantee quality. If satisfied with the quality of the project, release the payment to your student graduate and the project deliverables to the company.

Don't charge tuition upfront; it will not build trust in Pakistan. Take a cut of the paid projects you get. The first 2 years of your graduates salary, you take a 30% cut. Many of these graduates aren't even money-driven; they are driven by the stigma of being unemployed. They would be happy to give you a 30% cut if it means employment. Let's you have 30 students a year making US minimum wage for 15hr/week. That comes to over a million rupees a month for you.

#2 Old Home/Light Medical care for parents of western immigrants

Thousands of Pakistani professionals are moving abroad yearly and they are leaving their parents behind, which worries them a lot. Build a community care home that gives these professionals in the West the peace of mind that their elderly parents are happy, moisturized, and well taken care of. Not to mention happy socializing with others their age.

You charge these professionals a monthly subscription to keep their elderly parents at the facility. You can charge a tiered subcrption model. E.g.

Tier 1: Your elderly parent gets light medical care, access to a basic bed, and basic food meals.

Tier 2: Your elderly parents get better medical care, better food, better bedrooms.

Tier 3: Your parent gets a 24/7 attendant at their side.

Lots of overseas Pakistanis are stressed about their elderly parents in Pakistan. They also have a lot of disposable income. The demand only increases every year as parents get older and more people immigrate abroad. If you charge even $300 a month and you have 40 elderly folks in your facility, you're making $12k a month. Many western Pakistanis will gladly pay $300/ month for the knowledge that their parents are in good hands and happy.

#3 Cold chain storage for majorly affected industries

Cold chain storage is something that affects numerous industries in Pakistan. E.g. fish/seafood, pharmaceuticals, meat, vaccines, crops, and so much more. Presumably hundreds of thousands of dollars of value is lost annually because products spoil without cold storage. Anyone who can start a company offering end-to-end cold storage (not just one part of the logistics chain) can make major bucks. It's a versatile value offer that can boost earnings in numerous industries.

What currently happens in Pakistan is that only 1 part of the logistics chain has cold storage. E.g. farm - storage - transport - delivery - shelf. One part is the weak link where all consumer trust is lost. E.g. fish vendors always close their shops in the summer months due to no demand due to lack of cold chain storage. Usually cold chain storage cannot be guaranteed due to load shedding. With the solar boom and batteries, this problem can be solved.

Consumer perception problems can be mitigated through marketing. Guarantee end to end cold chain storage for wealthy customers in Islamabad/Lahore, and they will pay big bucks for the peace of mind that their vaccines/seafood/crops are not spoiled.

#4 Lactase extraction

Lots of products are imported from abroad in Pakistan but are too expensive for Pakistanis to buy regularly. This is a rich untapped industry: create products locally using foreign recipes but at a lower price. Sell cheaper than imported brands. A major example is Lactase.

Many Pakistanis are lactose intolerant but imported lactase is too expensive. Extracting lactase is not extremely technical and requires decent up front capital. Once the upfront costs are paid, ongoing costs are low to moderate. Demand exists as long as lactose intolerance exists and consumers want to eat dairy foods like pizza.

#5 Data-based agriculture

Agriculture in Pakistan rarely tends to be based on real-time data. It causes numerous problems such as land degradation, reduced crop yield, hindered nutrient absorption, water wastage. Build an app that allows wealthy land owners (the educated rural elite) to use real-time data on their fields (species specific nutrient needs, water needs, environmental conditions, soil type/health, etc.). Use data to prove improved crop yield and health and charge either a subscription fee or a cut of the extra profits.