2014 Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation Builds Schools without Barriers
Published in Philstar Global
MANILA, Philippines – Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things. In fact, for The Citizen’s Foundation (TCF), one of the recipients of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, it is the ordinary people who should be doing the extraordinary things. “That is what they are capable of,” …Read More
Brave Teenager Haris Suleman Honored by Pakistan for Public Service for Round World Flight for The Citizens Foundation to Help Educate Underprivileged Children
London, England (PRWEB UK) 29 August 2014 Haris Suleman, the teenage pilot who died when his plane crashed while on a round-the-world journey to raise funds for The Citizens Foundation, has been awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain. The Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) is Pakistan’s 3rd …Read More
Sitara-e-Imtiaz for Haris Suleman Next Year
Published in The News
Karachi Teenage pilot Haris Suleman, who died recently when his plane crashed while on a world tour to raise funds for a Pakistani organisation, will be awarded Sitara-e-Imtiaz on the next Pakistan Day. Haris, 17, was on the final leg of a courageous attempt to become the …Read More
Medal of Honour: Pakistan confers Sitara-e-Imtiaz on Teenage Pilot Haris Suleman
Published in The Express Tribune
KARACHI: Teenage pilot Haris Suleman, who was flying around the world in a bid to raise money for underprivileged students, has been conferred the Sitara-e-Imtiaz award by President Mamnoon Hussain. A list issued by the government on the occasion of Independence Day mentions the name of …Read More
Haris Suleman honoured by the President of Pakistan for Public Service for Flight to Help Educate Less-privileged Children
Haris Suleman, the teenage pilot who died when his plane crashed while on a round-the-world journey to raise funds for The Citizens Foundation, has been awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain. The Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) is Pakistan’s 3rd highest award. Haris, 17, was on the …Read More
Standing Tall
Studying at the Hamida Amin Kothawala Campus in Gadap, Syed Umer is a self made student. At 15 years of age, Umer not only studies hard to improve his grades, but also works at a utility store after school hours to support his family.
“Every day after school, I work at …Read More
TCF wins Ramon Magsaysay Award
By Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation
Pakistan, says the UNESCO, has the world’s second highest number of children who are out of school – around five and a half million, some 66 percent of them girls. It can also be a dangerous place for education, being one of those countries seriously challenged …Read More
TCF pays Tribute to Haris and Babar Suleman
Published by CNN through WISH TV
Babar Suleman and Haris Suleman were raising money for the Indiana-based group Seeds of Learning, which supports the work of The Citizens Foundation in Pakistan. They had raised half their goal when their Beechcraft Bonanza A36 crashed into the Pacific 23 miles from the island. …Read More
National Pride: Asia’s Nobel Laureate TCF is too Humble for its Fame
Published by The Express Tribune
KARACHI: The Citizens Foundation (TCF) organisation has been honoured with the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Ramon Magsaysay Award. “We have always been deliberately low-key as you may know that not everybody knows about even the founders,” said its CEO Asaad Ahmed. …Read More
Magsaysay Awards – The Citizens Foundation of Pakistan among Recipients
Published in Dawn
Wang Canfa is the other Chinese recipient. He founded the Centre for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims, which has offered free legal services to thousands of people and provided environmental law training to lawyers and others. Among other awardees were Indonesian anthropologist Saur Marlina Manurung, who set …Read More
Citizens Foundation wins Asia’s Nobel Prize
Published in The News
Karachi The Citizens Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation, which educates the underprivileged through its schools in Pakistan, has been awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award. The award is often considered Asia’s equivalent of a Nobel Prize. It was established in 1957 to propagate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay’s …Read More