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Aagahi illuminates lives

Aagahi, TCF’s community-based adult literacy programme, was launched in 2004-05 to provide illiterate girls and women from rural areas and urban slums with a chance to read and write. The programme was awarded the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy in 2017.

Classes are held twice a year, enrolling over 20,000 learners annually. Participants are taught Urdu reading and writing, as well as basic maths skills. The four-month course comprises four workbooks: three to teach phonetics-based recognition of the alphabet, words, and sentences, and one to teach basic numeracy. Topics on health, hygiene, and sanitation are included to increase awareness amongst the learners. Financial literacy modules have recently been added to the course to encourage financial inclusion.

In 2019-20, Aagahi partnered with a textile company to pilot the programme on factory floors for the illiterate workers.

Acquiring basic functional literacy skills has a life-changing impact: from being able to read bus numbers at a busy bus stop and calculating the change one is owed from a purchase to texting their loved ones, the gift of literacy raises selfesteem and dramatically transforms lives.

Through Aagahi, we have imparted functional literacy to…

• Aagahi Learners

  293,000

• Aagahi Centres

  4,801

Aab e Rehmat: Providing Clean Drinking Water for Healthier Communities

Water is essential to human survival, yet two-thirds of households in Pakistan drink bacterially contaminated water, and every year over 50,000 children in Pakistan die from diarrhoea.

Under TCF’s Aab-e-Rehmat clean drinking water initiative, community-sized filtration plants have been set up within TCF school premises, with dual outlets for both the school and the community.

On a daily basis, over 100,000 people benefit from the water plants set up across 11 districts: Lahore, Sheikhupura, Kasur, Sargodha, Muzaffargarh, Narowal, Mianwali, Naushehro Feroze, Dadu, Lasbela, and Karachi.

Water quality is ensured through a team of trained plant operators and technicians, who are responsible for carrying out regular plant repair and maintenance.Water quality testing is independently conducted by PCRWR. TCF works with its faculty to reduce absenteeism amongst schoolchildren by providing them with safe drinking water, while building awareness of improved health and hygiene practices in the community through the Aagahi Adult Literacy Programme.

Through Aab-e-Rehmat, TCF is serving…

• Beneficiaries per day

  100,000

• Basic Filtration Plants

  69

Vocational training for financial independence

TCF’s vocational training programme aims to provide economic empowerment opportunities to women in TCF school communities by providing them with technical skills, enabling them to earn a livelihood through income-generation and micro-enterprise.

TCF conducts a four-month Fashion Design Course in tailoring, embroidery, and entrepreneurship skills at its school premises. Women can earn their income by working from home or as apprentices at TCF vocational centres. Centres take work orders, including stitching of TCF school uniforms.

Launched in 2015, over 3,700 women have benefited from the training in 13 centres across 11 districts: Muzaffarabad, Islamabad, Mianwali, Gujranwala, Khushab, Sargodha, Lahore, Kasur, Jhang, Jaranwala, and Karachi.

TCF is creating economic empowerment opportunities through…

• Training centers

  28

• Graduates

  4,200