UAE community’s support for students in Pakistan hailed at Dubai conference

UAE community’s support for students in Pakistan hailed at Dubai conference

Dubai: The Citizens Foundation (TCF), a Pakistani non-profit organisation educating the less-privileged, recently held its ‘Annual Supporters Conference and Dinner’ in Dubai to thank its well-wishers in the UAE and to update them on the Foundation’s progress. The Conference brought together almost 600 guests from the UAE community. The attendees comprised a diverse group of individuals, including education advocates and supporters from the UAE community, and were welcomed by TCF’s Founding Directors. Guests included Faisal Niaz Tirmizi, Ambassador of Pakistan to UAE; Hassan Afzal Khan, Consul General of Pakistan in Dubai; and members of the International Humanitarian City (IHC) in Dubai. TCF established its first international chapter in UAE in 2004 and is registered with the IHC. In UAE, TCF has a community of supporters and donors who have built more than 80 schools and are currently supporting more than 120 TCF school units. Pakistan is the world’s sixth largest populous country and has the second-highest number of out-of-school children in the world. Out-of-school-children in Pakistan often face deep-rooted structural inequalities that are most often linked to gender biases, poverty and lack of access to quality schools. It is in response to this crisis that six Pakistanis put their own