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Date: May 07, 13
TCF wins prestigious Skoll Award
The Citizens Foundation (TCF), Pakistan has won the prestigious international Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship (SASEs). During an elaborate ceremony in Oxford, UK, on Thursday April 11, 2013, The Skoll Foundation presented SASE to TCF Chairman and Founding Director Mr. Mushtaq Chhapra. Chosen from hundreds of applicants, the award recognizes a highly selective group of the world’s most promising social entrepreneurs. Skoll provides funding to grantees, along with connection to Skoll’s...
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Date: Apr 11, 13
How to make education a right for every child in Pakistan
By Mushtaq Chhapra
In a country where 1 in every 12 children is out-of-school, it would be expected that someone like Aamara would be illiterate – she is a girl, poor, and lives in a small village in rural Pakistan. These three strikes make her part of one of the least likely groups in the world to get educated.
With 25 million out-of-school children, Pakistan – the sixth largest population on the planet – is unlikely to achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goal of universal primary...
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Date: Mar 08, 13
A ray of light in the dark tunnel of illiteracy
Sidrah Roghay
Karachi
Three months can change a woman’s life. Spent under the right guidance, it can change her fate from an introvert to someone who can step out of the house with confidence, board the right bus after reading the route number on the vehicle’s windscreen, use her mobile phone to call someone, or retort to a shopkeeper who is cheating her with the grocery bill.
Samina Begum is that guide for women in Yousuf Goth. She spends three months with her 25 students – all adult...
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Date: Mar 01, 13
TCF school wins Academic Olympiad 2013
At the Amantech in Korangi, students were tested to their wits in mathematics, science, English and IQ. Who came out as the winner at the Academic Olympiad 2013 organised by Teach For Pakistan, an initiative of The Aman Foundation, was a pleasant surprise.
We worked hard for it and won, said the winners from The Citizens Foundation Korangi Adamjee. “All three of us prepared for the competition very hard,” said a beaming Shazia Kanwal, a student of seventh class.
Three students each...
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Date: Mar 01, 13
Tears and jubilation abound as underprivileged children battle it out for academic glory
KARACHI: Saturday morning, 10 am. All my exhaustion dissipates as I step into the venue hall for Teach for Pakistan’s (TFP) Academic Olympiad 2013. The air is abuzz; the excitement palpable. The low drone of chattering students is broken momentarily by the quiz conductor’s ringing voice: “Ten points to Behbud,” she calls out. The audience breaks into applause.
The Olympiad has been organised by Teach for Pakistan, an initiative of the Aman Foundation. The competition has brought students...
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Date: Jan 16, 13
Supporters of TCF give Karachi a taste of spring
Supporters of The Citizens Foundation (STCF) take pleasure in welcoming Karachiites to a mesmerizing evening of music and humour “Lo Phir Bahar Aai”.
Directed by famous artist & musician Arshad Mahmood, this event features melodious Tahira Syed and popular celebrity Bushra Ansari along with Ali Safina on February 3, 2013 at the Darbar Hall, Sheraton Hotel. Tickets are available for Rs. 4,000 (per person).
Previously, STCF has held events that have provided a great platform for informal...
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