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“I’m really impressed by the level of technology in the classrooms. TCF is fostering digital literacy skills from an early age.”&...
  
Quality education begins with a competent teacher. A teacher's excellence and her commitment to the service of educating is the compass steering th...
  
The Citizens Foundation (TCF) and the Institute of Development & Economic Alternatives (IDEAS) are pleased to announce their collaboration on a...
  
At a roadside dhaba (tea shack) in Qasim Bughio village in Hala (Sindh), TCF student Gul Muhammad brews and serves tea from sundown to midnight. Gu...
  
Public education systems struggle to define the role and responsibilities of administrative vs. pedagogical leaders and fail to catalyze continuous...
  
This message relates to recent news reports regarding The Citizens Foundation’s (TCF) participation in an initiative by non-profit organisati...
  
A few weeks ago, we met flood-affected children in the village of Khoso in Matiari, Sindh, and were deeply touched by their optimism and resilience...
  
Panic took over the people of Soomro Goth, Jacobabad, as the floods tore through their village. Rabia’s mother hurriedly packed up a few belo...
  
Life can be difficult. While we may not be able to overcome all challenges, we can develop the skills to cope with adversity. Here’s Aamna, a TCF s...
  
The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified an acute learning crisis already facing Pakistan. Before the pandemic, Pakistan had the second-highest incidenc...
  
Before the pandemic, Rasool Baksh living in Makli (Sindh) hardly ever missed a day at school. So when schools reopened and he didn’t return to his ...
  
When the COVID-19 pandemic left their family with a surging debt, no income or a home to live in, Shahbaz and Mushtaq from the village Mirpur Sakro...
  
When her parents, both farmers, had their incomes slashed after the COVID-19 crisis, 10-year-old Iqra took up a job as a domestic worker to support...
  
Before the COVID-19 outbreak, Imtiaz, a TCF student of Class 4 in a small village of Tando Allahyar in Sindh, was dreaming of flying airplanes. Imt...
  
Nine-year-old Khadija, hailing from Lyari, a slum in Karachi, is not shy to dream big! She grew up playing football in the narrow streets and alley...
  
Every morning, 13-year-old Marium collects fresh water for her family by taking a one hour trek down the steep hills of Chamankotli, a vi...
  
On 19 August 2020, we lost a beloved member of the TCF family – Shahid Jalal. Shahid, along with being a distinguished landscape painter and a reci...
Daughters of a rickshaw driver from a broken neighbourhood of Korangi are on their path to success through education.
A brave mother suffering from cancer maintains her emotional resilience while her daughter is beginning to find her path to becoming a doctor.
A young boy decides to become a nurse after witnessing his loved ones struggle to get emergency care at hospitals.
A boy in the scorching heat of Naushahro Feroze is shaping pots to make some money off his sweat and clay.