Pakistan faces a serious education emergency. 21% of school-aged children in Pakistan do not receive an education.
We know that education holds the power to help people escape poverty, even in the face of adversity.
If Pakistan were to halve inequality in access to education, it would increase its economic growth by 1.7%.
CARE Foundation’s vision is a country where all children have access to high quality education that unlocks their full potential.
Our work is nation building. By empowering thousands of children with a solid education today, they can help build a happier, more prosperous Pakistan tomorrow.
CARE Foundation is a ground-breaking welfare trust.
It has a unique public-private partnership with the Pakistan Government, where failing government schools are adopted and transformed by providing trained staff and missing facilities.
CARE’s PPP model is highly scalable, replicable and cost effective as funds are directly invested in education rather than bricks and mortar, so that quality education costs as little as Rs. 1000 or £5 per child, per month. Currently, CARE is educating over 300,000 children in 888 schools.
The CARE Foundation was founded in Pakistan in 1988 by Ms Seema Aziz, after a group of concerned citizens came together to rehabilitate flood victims in the Sheikhupura district of Pakistan.
While helping them rebuild their mud homes, they realised there was no school in the area. The best way to help would be to build one.
“Only through education would they stand on their own feet.”
Ms Seema Aziz.
In 1990, CARE built its first school. CARE also established a dispensary to offer affordable primary health care and built a vocational centre, to provide income-generating opportunities to local women.
We have managed to improve thousands of lives over the years by bringing good quality education to the underprivileged children.
In January 1991, CARE’s first school opened its doors to be greeted, much to everyone’s surprise, by 250 eager children.
CARE quickly became known for its high-quality education, and children from far and wide flocked to the school.
More schools were built in other locations with the support of donors from across the globe.
The City District Government Lahore approached CARE in 1998 to adopt and manage some of its failing schools.
CARE agreed to take on 10 such schools, pioneering the concept of Public Private Partnership in education in Pakistan. CARE
transformed these schools completely, providing missing facilities, such as toilets, science labs, computer labs, libraries and trained staff. As a result of this success, CARE has been approached to adopt more schools by every successive government.
Today, CARE is educating thousands of children in over 850 adopted schools.
