Success Stories

Congratulations to these young ladies on their accomplishments!  

 

 

Confidence and motivation to succeed drew Urooba Yousuf, now 19, to a TCF School in Khuda kee Basti, Karachi. She switched from a private school where she was a 7th grader. Extra work helped her catch up with her peers at the new school and she was soon among the top scoring students.     

Urooba’s determination to get ahead paid off. She went on to receive a TCF scholarship for college. To help with the family income, Urooba also took a part-time job as a teaching assistant in the science lab at her old TCF school. She was also directed by TCF Placement Services to an internship with Barclays Bank which was “... a wonderful experience that boosted my confidence.”

Urooba is pursuing an undergrad degree in Mass Communications at Karachi University and is also enrolled in a business program at the Institute for Cost and Management Accounting.  

TCF is pleased to present outstanding students like Urooba Yousuf who have found the right ingredients for success.  

 

Sidra Saleem has followed her dream and made it to Dow University of Health and Sciences, a leading medical institution in Pakistan. Sidra is the first TCF student at Dow University.

"It has been a long journey. I started at a TCF primary school in 1998 and I've worked hard. I had to work extra hard for admission to Dow and made it on merit. Coming from a low income family, this would not have been possible without the help and support of TCF. I am so grateful."

 

 

Durdana Rehman is the first TCF student to be accepted into medical school. She is a graduate of Shirin Sultan Dossa Campus II, TCF Secondary School in Roranwala, and Defence Degree College for Women, Lahore.

Durdana scored in the top 15 in the national entrance test for medical colleges and is currently at the Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore.

Durdana is from a large family with eight siblings. Two of her brothers graduated from the same TCF school in Roranwala; one of them has completed a program in Pharmacy from Lahore Pharmaceutical College and the other is at Garrison College, Lahore.   Four other siblings are at a TCF school in Roranwala and Durdana says: “The other two who are still too young to be in school, will also go to TCF schools.”

 

Sajida Hanif

Sajida has been a top student at TCF, scoring an A in the 10th grade (matric) Board exams. She is the oldest of 8 children of a laborer’s family. Passionate about becoming a professional nurse, she is at a nursing program in a Punjab hospital.

 

TCF Highlights

With 730 operational schools nationwide, TCF student enrollment has reached 102,000 girls and boys - and half the students are girls.

TCF Presence

TCF has schools in all the provinces of Pakistan, in urban slums and underserved rural areas.

TCF Teachers

Our teachers receive 120 hours of pre-service training.  Additionally, all teachers receive 80 hours of in-service professional development annually.