Boston Chapter leader visits TCF school in Islamabad
Marhama Alvi, TCF-USA Boston Chapter leader, has been associated with the TCF movement since 2010…
TCF Is Being Featured At Expo 2020 Dubai’s Global Best Practice Program
I grew up in a very small urban slum, between New Karachi and Gulshan-e-Maymar in Karachi, Pakistan. These slums – called katchi abadis…
‘I Grew Up In a Slum, I’m Now a Doctor of Neurology’
I grew up in a very small urban slum, between New Karachi and Gulshan-e-Maymar in Karachi, Pakistan. These slums – called katchi abadis…
Empowering Girls To Dream
TCF’s Remediation Programme accounts for the impact the pandemic has had on learning by providing teachers with diagnostic tools to…
Navigating Through the Learning Loss Caused by COVID-19
TCF’s Remediation Programme accounts for the impact the pandemic has had on learning by providing teachers with diagnostic tools to…
“Dastak” (Opportunity Knocks)
Founded in1995, TCF has 1687 schools in underserved urban and rural locations, with a current enrollment of 275,000 children from underprivileged families and nearly 50…
Marium is back in school! But many girls still aren’t…
To collect fresh water every morning, 13-year-old Marium treks for one hour down the steep hills of Chamankotli, a village located in Azad Kashmir …
TCF’s role in mitigating the education crisis post Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic has amplified an acute learning crisis already facing Pakistan…
Rasool Baksh is back in school, thanks to YOU!
Before the pandemic, Rasool Baksh living in Makli (Sindh) hardly ever missed…
Shahbaz & Mushtaq are all smiles as they return to school!
When the Covid-19 pandemic left their family with a surging debt, no income or a home to live…
Iqra is working day and night for her dreams!
When her parents, both farmers, had their incomes slashed after the Covid-19 crisis…
Imtiaz is back in school, but many aren’t!
Before the Covid-19 outbreak, Imtiaz, a TCF student of Class…
Sabrina Siddiqui, Political Reporter/CNN Analyst joins as TCF Campaigns Ambassador
Sabrina Siddiqui is a national politics reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she covers the 2020 presidential race, and a political analyst at CNN…
In conversation with TCF Principal – Sundus Batool
There are no great schools without great principals. TCF faculty has always been at the center of TCF endeavours and our principals play an integral role in this team…
TCF Continues Education During School Closures
The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in the official suspension of face-to-face classes at all TCF Schools across Pakistan. TCF operates schools in the poorest and most vulnerable communities of the country….
The Power Of A Father’s Dream
It’s 7:00 am. Amjad, while sitting cross legged on the floor, in a small room of his home in Korangi, is having breakfast with his wife and six daughters, all clustered around the food mat…
On The Spinning Wheel
As temperatures peak at midday, Aslam, a student of class 3 in the TCF School in Naushahro Feroze, Sindh, returns home. Without a moment’s delay, eight-year-old Aslam changes into his home attire before taking his place behind the spinning wheel…
A Nurse On Duty
In the twilight of dawn each day, Adnan wakes up to the incessant chirping of crickets. He puts on a crisp white uniform, and clips a badge onto its pocket labelled, Assistant Nurse, The Aga Khan Hospital. As he steps into the hospital’s red brick…
A Mother’s Prayer
The house is sparkling. There is not a speck of dust to be seen, I observe as Rabia, a student of TCF School, Chamankotli Campus in Muzaffarabad, quickly leads me into her small courtyard where her mother…
A Will Unshaken
“What is there to learn in a classroom? Most girls your age are married already. Instead of burying your head in books, you should be learning household chores.”…