Hidaya Foundation's mission is to implement educational, environmental, social welfare, and health care programs in economically depressed areas of Asia, Africa and North America, with focus on projects which promote self-employment. Priorities are to educate the masses and spread literacy, particularly among women, in order to bring about a sustainable change in the society; and to focus toward future self-employment with the hope of breaking the cycle of ongoing dependency, while giving immediate assistance to families in the current crisis.