Video: Gala event in Dubai supports children’s education in Pakistan

Video: Gala event in Dubai supports children’s education in Pakistan

Dubai: Around 500 Pakistani professionals, business and community leaders attended a gala event in Dubai on Friday in support of The Citizens Foundation (TCF), a leading non-governmental organisation (NGO) providing free education to less-privileged Pakistani youth. Set up in 1995 by a group of Pakistanis “who wanted to bring about positive social change through education”, TCF is now operating 1,833 school units across 63 districts in Pakistan. TCF has an enrolment of around 280,000 students and it is said to be the largest private employer of women in Pakistan with 13,000 teachers and school principals. Recently, TCF was featured as one of the top 25 projects worldwide at Expo 2020 Dubai’s Global Best Practice Programme, “Small Steps, Big Leaps’, Solutions for Sustainable Impact’.” TCF in the UAE was the first TCF international chapter established in 2004. TCF - UAE has a support community and donors here have built more 80 schools and are currently supporting more than 100 TCF schooling units. The ‘Annual Supporters Conference by TCF UAE was attended by the First Lady of Pakistan, Samina Alvi; Mike Nithavrianakis, British Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi and Trade Director for Pakistan; Afzaal Mahmood, Ambassador of Pakistan to UAE; Hassan Afzal