Skoll Documentary – Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy
Skoll’s Documentary on TCF by Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy from The Citizens Foundation on Vimeo.
TCF is transforming the lives of young underpriviliged children across Pakistan. Walk through our journey of picking children off the streets and putting them into school.
TCF Featured in Qatar Airways In-Flight Magazine
Published in the Qatar Airways In-Flight Magazine
In Pakistan alone, the literacy rate stands at a meagre 55 percent (UNESCO, 2014), constituting one of the lowest literacy rates in the world. TCF was founded in 1995, as a response to these rates, by a group of citizens determined to resolve the education …Read More
Lamudi Pakistan Collaborates with The Citizens Foundation
Launched in 1995, the Citizens Foundation (TCF) is a non-profit organization and aims to transform the dreary state of Pakistan’s education system. It has made its way up to becoming one of the country’s most prominent organizations in the field of education.
TCF has the honor of having opened 1,000 schools …Read More
TCF and Lamudi.pk Join Hands to Promote the Cause of Education
The Citizens Foundation recently collaborated with Lamudi.pk to raise awareness regarding TCF’s growing network of schools and educational projects. This partnership was initiated in February 2015 and is part of Lamudi’s efforts to contribute to and appreciate TCF’s social uplift efforts. Lamudi wishes to aid TCF in eradicating illiteracy in …Read More
TCF and KFC Join Hands for the Mitao Bhook Campaign
KFC Pakistan under the “Mitao Bhook” umbrella, announced the third initiative with The Citizens Foundation (TCF) at a press conference held on 26th March, 2015. The event was held at the TCF School.
KFC in collaboration with The Citizens Foundation launched a campaign in which they introduced their TCF BUCKET. PKR …Read More
Social Entrepreneur Award for The Citizens Foundation, Pakistan
KARACHI: The Citizens Foundation (TCF) of Pakistan – an NGO in formal education – has been recognised for the Social Entrepreneur of the 2015 Year Award by the Schwab Foundation, Switzerland.
Schwab Foundation has selected thirty three outstanding social entrepreneurs in 2015 and TCF was one of among them. These social …Read More
TCF Alumni gives back
Shabina Kanwal studied from TCF School in Saifal Goth, Karachi. She is now teaching at a TCF Primary School in Saindad and simultaneously studying for a Bachelors degree. Her successful academic phase and currently her respectable job have greatly influenced her conservative extended-family. Her uncles, aunts and other relatives are …Read More
A Drive of Optimism
Alfana started teaching at TCF Bhai Pheru Campus, Kasur-Punjab in the year 2000. After the completion of her ten year service she was awarded the ‘Long Service Award’. She was appointed as the principal of TCF Primary School Baherwal, Houston Campus II, Patoki. Alfana has also been involved in the …Read More
Children and Education Must Not Be Held Hostage
Originally Published in The Opinion
By Mushtaq Chhapra
Sometimes, it’s more comfortable just to tune out bad news. The dripping tap of negativity in the media can eventually become so dehumanizing, it define a country like Pakistan in the eyes of the world, then something so terrible happens that you simply have …Read More
Abdullah’s Passion for Education
Studying in grade I at TCF St. Louis Missouri Campus in Ghazi Minara, Sheikhupura, Abdullah is a very ambitious and playful child according to his teachers “I want to join the police force when I grow up”, says Abdullah. His mother is employed at the same campus as support staff …Read More
A Tribute to Lucy Monro
TCF extends its deepest and heartfelt condolences on the tragic and untimely demise of Lucy Monro. It was a huge loss for the entire Humanitarian Community she supported and for TCF Family in particular.
To celebrate her illustrious life, TCF arranged a small memorial at the Head Office, to pay homage …Read More
Ali Zafar pens emotional letter urging Pakistanis to do more
Originally published in Express Tribune
A day before the release, Zafar has penned an emotional letter, highlighting the importance of giving back to society:
For years, you have seen me sing, dance, act and perform to entertain you. My gratitude for your love, appreciation and admiration, can never be expressed through words.
Therefore …Read More
Working Her Way Through
Overcoming adversity and embracing life, Ujala is a diligent student of grade II at TCF St. Louis Missouri Campus in Ghazi Minara, Sheikhupura, Punjab. This promising 8 year old comes across as a very bright and quick-witted student, hence, is highly valued by her teachers. Ujala’s mother supports her family …Read More
The Journey of Mansoor and Mairaj
The two friends, Mansoor and Mairaj, both joined TCF in 2002 in Grade I, when the first TCF Campus was inaugurated in Rehri Goth which is an urban slum in Karachi. They had previously been studying in a local government school, but transferred to TCF Infaq Campus where they cleared …Read More
Fighting Extremism with Schools, Not Guns
Originally published in the Inter Press Service News Agency
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI, Jan 21 2015 (IPS) – As a wave of outrage, crossing Pakistan’s national borders, continues a month after the Dec. 16 attack on a school in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, some citizens are turning away from collective expressions …Read More
Paving her Way to Success
Urooba Yousuf is a confident and self motivated student, whose self belief is second to none. Hailing from a humble background, her father works as a salesman in an electronic market while her mother teaches at a TCF school to support the family. This determined soul studied from TCF BGP …Read More
Usman Riaz: Virtual Virtuosity
Originally Published in Dawn
By Shazia Hasan
He learned the piano at six, picked up the guitar at 16 and used the Internet to teach himself a bunch of other things. Now he makes a tabla and dholak out of his acoustic guitar while also playing with its strings, taps and …Read More
Education in Pakistan: Building More Schools to Combat Extremism
Published in The Guardian
By Madiha Qureshi
After Peshawar, Pakistan must not turn a blind eye to the connection between its ghost schools and the growth of radicalism in its most neglected regions.
Eight years ago, I briefly held what was perhaps the best job in Pakistan. I was the documenter of good …Read More
TCF Partners with Express Media group for their ‘Aao Parhao Campaign’
Aao Parhao, an Express Media group initiative in collaboration with IlM Ideas, is a call-to-action campaign with a specific objective to raise the profile of the teaching profession- increase its value and respect in society as key agents of change, thereby motivating and inspiring highly qualified young adults to enter …Read More
There is More to Us than Extremism: 10 Extraordinary Pakistanis of 2014
Published in The Express Tribune
Pakistan isn’t an extraordinary country. But Pakistan is a country brimming with extraordinary people. They are not perfect – yet therein lies their beauty. Extraordinary Pakistanis don’t wait for a perfect opportunity, a perfect personality or a perfect external landscape to make an impact.
This is the …Read More