The Citizens Foundation (TCF)
The Citizens Foundation (TCF) is a nonprofit established in 1995 in Pakistan to help educate children, youth, and adults from underprivileged communities across the country and create a positive social impact. Through its education programmes, TCF became an award-wining organisation helping uplift communities out of poverty through education. It has an active fundrasing chapter in the UAE as well as registered entities in the US and Europe.
- Organisation type Nonprofit
- Year founded 1995
- Headquartered Karachi
- Registration United States · United Arab Emirates · Switzerland · Canada · United Kingdom · Australia · Pakistan · Italy · Norway
- Website https://www.tcf.org.pk/
Related sustainable development goals
Impact
286,000 students enrolled in TCF schools
174,000 adult literacy learners
57,000 graduates from TCF schools
1,921 school units built
14,000 all-female faculty members
48,000 people benefited from clean drinking water
Focus areas
Focus sectors
Development
- Economic development
- Community improvement
Education
- Education services
- Student retention
- Early childhood education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Vocational education
- Adult education
- Adult Literacy
- Higher education
Health
- Public health
- Water access, sanitation and hygiene
Humanitarian
- Emergency relief
- Youth development
Philanthropy
- Voluntarism
Focus populations
- Academics
- Low-income people
- Students
- Teachers
- Women and girls
- Working poor
Focus geographies
South Asia
- Pakistan
Partners
- Adamjee Life
- Bank of Punjab (BOP)
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Buckle and Seam
- Citi Foundation
- Coca-Cola
- Express Media group
- Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE)
- Institute of Development & Economic Alternatives (IDEAS)
- Jazz mobile network operator
- Karachi Golf Club
- Karachi Literature Festival (KLF)
- MITI (Memon Industrial & Technical Institute)
- Orange Tree Foundation
- Professional Academy of Commerce (PAC)
- Punjab Education Foundation (PEF)
- Young Education Supporters (YES)
Programmes
Aab E Rehmat clean water programme
A TCF programme that helps provide access to clean drinking water for underprivileged communities in Pakistan. Currently, more than 48,000 people in 11 districts are benefiting from this programme every day.
Aagahi Illuminates Lives!
This TCF programme was launched in 2004 as a literacy programme for girls and women from rural areas and urban slums to help them learn how to read and write. The programme, which enrolls more than 20,000 learners every year and has benefited 174,000 girls and women to-date, was awarded the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy in 2017.
Education programmes
Under its education programmes, TCF has three sub-programmes focussing on digital literacy, early childhood education, and mother tongue based multilingual education. It also conducts intensive principal and teacher training to ensure quality education in its schools.
TCF Pakistan flood relief
Following the devastating floods that hit Pakistan in late 2022, TCF launched an appeal to provide urgent relief items and food to the most impacted communities.
TCF schools
To date, TCF has built a network of 1,921 primary and secondary schools across Pakistan.
Vocational training programme
This TCF programme provides women living in the communities around TCF schools with vocational training to achieve financial independence and gain access to income-generating opportunities.
Financials
Details
- US$ 40.2 million
Funding model
- In-kind gifts
- Programme related investment
- Volunteering
Primary funders
- Adnan Husain family
- Allan & Nesta Ferguson
- Australian High Commission
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
- Dallas Fort-Worth Supporters
- Echidna Giving
- Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office
- Give Light Foundation
- Global 3M Giving
- HCD Memorial
- Interloop Welfare Trust
- Jazz Foundation
- Jochnick Foundation
- Merck Family Foundation
- Noorani family
- Pousaz Philanthropies
- Queen Ann's Gate Foundation
- Sir Ernest Cassel
- The Shirin Sultan Dossa Foundation
- UBS Optimus Foundation
- Waterloo Foundation
Funding source
- Fundraising
- Private
Operations
Key staff
- Syed Asaad Ayub Ahmad, president and CEO
- Ali Aamir, CFO
- Riaz Kamlani, executive vice president of programmes
- Zia Akhter Abbas, executive vice president of development
- Ghazala Nadeem, executive vice president of human resources, technology, and organisation excellence
- Shazia Kamal, executive vice president of outcomes
- Tauseef Ul Islam, executive vice president of engineering, supply chain, and land management
Board members
- Adnan Asdar
- Ahsan M. Saleem
- Ateed Riaz
- Hajerah Ahsan Saleem
- Ishaque Noor
- Jahanzeb Awan
- Musadaq Zulqarnain
- Mushtaq K. Chhapra
- Nilofer Saeed
- Rizwan Diwan
- Saima Amin Khawaja
- Tariq Raza Hussain
Contact details
- 00 92 4 368 1096
- info@tcf.org.pk
- https://www.tcf.org.pk/
- Plot No. 20, Sector - 14, Near Brookes Chowrangi, Korangi Industrial Area, Karachi 74900, Pakistan