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
Statement from The Citizens Foundation regarding Babar and Haris Suleman
It is with great sadness that we can confirm that a Beechcraft aircraft flown by Babar Suleman and his son Haris, from Plainfield, Indiana, has crashed into the ocean near American Samoa. Haris’s body has been recovered. His father has not yet been found. They were on the final leg …Read More
DIBL, TCF Sign Marketing Alliance
Published in Business Recorder
Dubai Islamic Bank Pakistan Limited (DIBPL) and The Citizens Foundation (TCF) have signed a marketing alliance to promote each other’s respective noble causes for community service and TCF Zakat Collection campaign nation-wide. Mushtaq Chhapra (Chairman of TCF), Junaid Ahmed (CEO of DIBPL) and other members of …Read More
Sky is the Limit: Father-Son Duo hit Karachi as they go around the World in 30 Days
Published in The Express Tribune
KARACHI: The father-son duo planning to go around the world in 30 days to raise money for underprivileged reached Karachi on Tuesday afternoon. The 17-year-old Haris Suleman, who is said to be the youngest person ever to fly a plane, aims to complete a world journey …Read More
Roznama Duniya Features Haris Suleman as he Embarks on his Journey
Read more at http://e.dunya.com.pk/detail.php?date=2014-07-02&edition=KCH&id=1151414_84526580
Around the World in 30 Days
Published in Dawn
They are not Phileas Fogg and Passepartout, but just like Jules Verne’s characters young Pakistani American Haris Suleman and his father Babar Suleman have set out to travel around the world in … wait for it … 30 days! And that too … wait for it … in …Read More
17-year old Pilot Raising Funds for Education through World Voyage
Published in Dawn
By Shazia Hasan
A team of a Father-and-son Babar and Haris Suleman planned on flying around the world in 30 days in a single-engine plane to raise money for The Citizens Foundation to build schools in rural Pakistan for underprivileged children.
Read more: http://epaper.dawn.com/DetailNews.php?StoryText=02_07_2014_117_001
Around the World in 30 Days
Published in Huffington Post
As many teenagers are getting ready for the long summer holiday, I am preparing for the biggest adventure of my life; to break the world record by flying round the world in a single-engine plane in just thirty days. I will be flying as pilot in command …Read More
American Teenager in Daring Attempt to Become the Youngest Ever Pilot to Fly Around the World in 30 Days To Raise Funds for The Citizens Foundation Schools in Pakistan
Jun 05, 2014 High school student – aged 17 – making final preparations for courageous bid to raise funds and awareness for some of the world’s poorest children. Spotlight on non-profit organization building quality schools for the forgotten boys and girls living in Pakistan’s slums. HARIS Suleman is about to …Read More
Best Annual Report Award 2012 by South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA)
Published by SAFA
April 14, 2014: The Citizens Foundation (TCF) was declared the winner of “Best presented Annual Report Award 2012” presented by South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) in Non-Governmental Organization category (including NGOs). The awards were distributed at a ceremony organized on May 3rd, 2014. SAFA is an …Read More
Around the World in 30 days for Education
Published in Mail Online
While most school children are finishing off their exams and looking forward to the summer break, Haris Suleman will be taking off with his father on an incredible journey to support education flying their single-engine plane around the world in just 30 days. If they succeed, …Read More
Students Plant Saplings to Celebrate Earth Day
Published in The News
Shahid Husain Karachi Enthusiastic students of The Citizens Foundation School (Saeedabad Campus I) planted saplings to celebrate Earth Day on Tuesday. Each young tree was tagged with the name of the pupil who planted it to give them a sense of ownership. Their faces glowed as their …Read More
Earth day: Students Plant Trees and Clean Beach
Published in The Express Tribune
KARACHI: More than 400 students of different government schools of the city participated in a beach-cleaning drive and also planted mangroves at the Wetland Centre.
Read more: www.tribune.com.pk/story/699042/earth-day-students-plant-trees-and-clean-beach
Tribune captures TCF team on International Day for Street Children
The Citizens Foundation staff distributed information brochures and pamphlets to passing motorists at Teen Talwar on Friday. The event was aimed to raise awareness about the plight of street children, a day ahead of International Street Children Day, celebrated on April 12 every year.
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The News features TCF on International Day for Street Children
Karachi Staff and volunteers of The Citizens Foundation (TCF) got together at various traffic signals in the city on Friday to raise awareness of the importance of sending street children to school. Traffic was intercepted for distributing flyers and awareness material on the organisation and the education crisis facing the …Read More
Roznama Duniya features International Day for Street Children
The International Day for Street Children takes place on April 12th. The day provides a platform for the millions of street children around the world to speak out so that their rights cannot be ignored.
Read more: http://e.dunya.com.pk/detail.php?date=2014-04-12&edition=KCH&id=998799_21264591