Success Stories

 
As the sun was setting on the dusty streets of Bhai Pheru, Punjab, Ayesha stood alongside her father and grandfather before the Chaudhry (the triba...
 
At a roadside dhaba (tea shack) in Qasim Bughio village in Hala (Sindh), TCF student Gul Muhammad brews and serves tea from sundown to midnight. Gu...
 
“Education is the best tool. It is the best investment, because when you empower an individual with education, you do not change one individu...
 
Growing up, Aqsa often saw her parents struggle to pay for her education. They would often have to forego meals to cover the cost of her education ...
 
The sweet scent of mangoes fills the air as we enter a small, mud-brick home in a dusty street of the urban slum, Khuda ki Basti, Karachi. The powe...
 
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 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...
 
A brave mother suering from cancer maintains her emotional resilience while her daughter is beginning to find her path to becoming a doctor.