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Yasmeen ki Kahani- Aagahi ka Safar

Tcf Usa — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 05:17:24 +0000

This is the Story of Yasmeen, a TCF Alumni and a mentor for the Aagahi Adult Literacy Program which provides illiterate women from rural areas and urban slums around TCF schools an opportunity to learn how to read and write Urdu and basic mathematics.

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TCF Chakwal

Tcf Usa — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 10:27:32 +0000

Education is changing the lives of girls like Nadia, allowing them an opportunity to build their lives and break free from the bounds of poverty and despair engraved within their families and communities.

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Nasreen ki Kahani

Tcf Usa — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 07:27:37 +0000

“I was afraid of speaking to people from fear that I would offend someone because I could not speak the local urdu language, in fact my writing used to be like a child’s scribbling. But thanks to TCF, I can now read from books and newspapers on my own.”

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TCF Vocational Training Project

Tcf Usa — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 04:41:15 +0000

TCF is currently heading 14 vocational training centers to help women within the communities around its established campuses, to develop a means for their livelihood.

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TCF Alumni gives back

Tcf Usa — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:49:16 +0000

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 convinced that girls should be […]

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Najma Inspires

Tcf Usa — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 12:01:27 +0000

Najma Baloch is a teacher at TCF Abu Dhabi Campus I, in Karachi. She is strong and independent woman, who single handedly takes care of her family as her husband stays unwell. “I teach students of Grade I and am so grateful to TCF for giving me the opportunity to give a chance to better […]

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How Education Changed my World

Tcf Usa — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:10:55 +0000

From a very young age, Kulsoom was anxious to learn how to read and write. Her parents used to work in the fields and she would often accompany them to give them a hand. For a short time she did get the opportunity to take a few classes at school but when her father got […]

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The Road to Awareness

Tcf Usa — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:03:03 +0000

“When I was a child I used to feel inferior to girls who used to go to school in my neighborhood… I knew that education could not become my preference at that point in life” shares Musarrat. Thus, on finding out about the Aagahi Programme, she enrolled quickly, finding a way to manage her house […]

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Basra Bai’s Determination

Tcf Usa — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:19:59 +0000

Basra Bai works as an aya at TCF Abu Dhabi Campus I. She is a simple woman and considers her work her first priority. “I wake up early and try to reach school soon so that I have ample time to clean and tidy up the place before the students start arriving.” she shares. She […]

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