Success Stories

The sweet scent of mangoes fills the air as we enter a small, mud-brick home in a dusty street of Khuda ki Basti, Karachi. The power is out, m...
The Citizens Foundation has always been committed in its mission to positively impact the future of its students, but 2019 marked a significant mom...
As the first rays of the sun touch the water-starved village of Thario Halepoto in Tharparker, Sindh, 11-year-old Bakhtawar sets off for the long w...
When Nasreen walked into a TCF School in Ibrahim Goth for her daughter’s admission, little did she know that she was about to embark on the m...
“When I was little, Abu (father) would drop me and my brother off to school on his bicycle every day before heading out to the fields. While we wou...
“A policewoman? What kind of a job is that for a girl?” Iram’s relatives would ask her mother. At the time, TCF alumna Iram from Kalabagh, Punjab, ...
A decade ago, we visited a small home in the village of Salehpat, Sindh. There, on a charpoy (woven bed), sat a shy little girl in her TCF School u...
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.
As the sun came up in Jhangesar, a small fishing village in Sindh, anxiety started creeping up on ten-year-old Shaheen. The strong s...
“What is there to learn in a classroom? Most girls your age are married already. Instead of burying your head in books, you should be learnin...
“My interest in taekwondo developed when I was 8. My cousin had signed up for martial arts classes near our home in Ittehad town, a low-income sett...
It was 2007; thousands of people were forced to flee their homes in Bajaur Agency as the Pakistan Army intensified its operation against the milita...
When she was little, Samina Noreen, living in Moza Kot Sharif, a small village in the Chiniot district of Punjab used to rouse from her sleep for p...
“My parents enrolled me in kindergarten at TCF School, Sumar Goth Campus, located near the coastline of Karachi, but soon pulled me out because it ...
“It was just another morning in Muzaffarabad; I was pregnant with my fourth child, busy getting my chores done, when suddenly the ground seemed to ...
“Hurry up, beti (daughter), it is time to pick,” calls Zainab’s mother as she wakes her up before the break of dawn. Zainab knows that it is going ...
“When I came to this college for my interview, I was just sitting there nodding my head in a ‘yes’ and shaking it for a ‘no’
By Usman Mujtaba When TCF opened its first school in Minhala, it was a challenge to convince the community to send their daughters to school. Almos...