Support a School in Pakistan

We are grateful to you for supporting The Citizens Foundation (TCF) and our work providing education to underprivileged children in Pakistan. You are paving the way to a brighter future for so many children.

I am excited to share some news with you.

Education is important. Quality education is more important. When TCF began in 1995, our founders committed not to build “poor schools for poor children” but rather to build schools on par with the best in the world. We have never wavered from that commitment. Recent test results back up this statement.

ASER, originally developed by Pratham in India, has been called “the only current source of national annual information on children’s ability to read and do basic arithmetic in Pakistan” by the PAL Network. The most recent results from December 2023: TCF third graders are 3.7 times more effective at reading stories than government school students. What makes this statistic more impressive: TCF schools operate at one-third the cost per student of government schools.

This means our schools are 11x more effective at teaching foundational literacy.

It is our belief that a child’s socioeconomic status should never dictate their opportunities. We have been meticulous in how we design our schools and curriculum as well as how we train our teachers and principals to give our students the best opportunities.

Thank you for giving us the support to continue delivering quality education.

All my best,

Eric

Thank you for your support of The Citizens Foundation (TCF). 

I would like to share with you a story to highlight the impact of your support. (Name changed for safeguarding)

One of our students, Sana, is 13 years old and works with her brother as animal breeders to support their family. They must take on this burden because their father is out of the picture and their mother has cancer. Growing up she didn't have the chance to dream. Not because she didn't want to, but because she couldn't afford to.

One day she learned about a TCF school. Now she spends her days working in the morning and attending school in the afternoon. Today, she dreams of becoming a cancer specialist so that she can take care of other people like her mother. She can study, work hard and take all of the steps necessary- except for paying for a quality education. 

That's where your support came in. Donors like you are taking the one step that she could not.

Her story is not unique as we now have over 285,000 children in 1,921 schools across Pakistan. As we continue to rapidly expand, we aim to cross 2,000 schools by the end of the year!

Thank you for making stories like Sana's possible and so many others like hers. When you educate a child, you change their lives, their families, their communities, and their society.

All my best,

Eric