Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award

The Schwab Foundation awards the Social Entrepreneur award to those who “harness the power of the market forces and business principles to solve social problems, from poor health-care to unemployment”.

The Citizens Foundation’s Mushtaq Chhapra, a co-founder and director as TCF, was awarded the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2013. It was received for providing high quality primary education to children, especially girls, from economically disadvantaged families in Pakistan through TCF