By Zahabiya Karimi | Accounts and Administrative Assistant
TCF Celebrates 20 Years
The year 2015 ushers in a new era for The Citizens Foundation (TCF), as it celebrates 20 years of providing quality education to the underprivileged children of Pakistan. TCF now stands at 1060 school units educating over 165,000 students across five provinces. Distinctively, these schools operate in urban and rural slum areas in over 109 towns and cities.
TCF aims for 50% female enrollment, and currently stands at 48%. Apart from education, TCF provides annual summer camps, mentorship programmes and career counselling sessions, to enable its students to prepare and plan for their future. Rahbar, TCF’s mentorship programme, is now the largest structured mentoring programme in the country. Furthermore, our Female Adult Literacy Programme, known as ‘Aagahi’ has allowed 33,000 women from deprived communities attain basic literacy and numeracy skills.
TCF continues to turn out outstanding students, making headlines in Pakistan, as well as internationally. TCF student Zafar passed his Matriculation at TCF with flying colours, achieving an A+, and gaining a scholarship to one of the country’s leading colleges. He is currently pursuing the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme (equivalent to A Levels/Intermediate) at a United World College (UWC), in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The UWC is an extremely prestigious and selective education movement, and students from around the world are selected based on merit and potential. Zafar has flourished at the college, and his term report described him as a mature and responsible student, actively participating in class and extracurricular activities.TCF aims to leverage two decades of successful experience, to continue granting such opportunities to future students.
Your School
All donations made through our Global Giving campaign go directly towards the TCF ‘KFC Pakistan Campus’ secondary school. The school is located in Karachi, Sindh and currently educates 240 students, with 52% female enrolment.
Located in one of Karachi’s most impoverished areas, the school has become a haven for the community. It is a part of the TCF water filter project, which provides safe filtered water to the students. It has also undergone several cycles of the Rahbar programme, and its students have been through career counselling. Regular Aagahi sessions have been conducted at this campus since 2009.
Meet Urooba Yousuf, Who Dreamt Big
Hailing from a humble background, Urooba studied in TCF B.G.P Campus, Karachi, and worked hard to complete her intermediate studies. Through TCF, Urooba obtained an opportunity to do an internship at Barclays Bank PLC. She recalls it as a wonderful experience that help increase her confidence. She went on to complete cost accounting courses, after which she pursued her degree in Mass Communication from the University of Karachi and graduated in 2014.
Urooba has now stepped into the professional world, working in a renowned advertising agency as a copy writer. She looks back at her time at TCF with gratitude, saying that TCF helped her develop the ability to dream, think, and believe in herself. Your donation will help many others like her to not just dream, but achieve their dreams and ambitions.
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