Mehek Mushtaq, 31, is specializing in Anaesthesiology I come from a humble family. My father was an artist and the sole breadwinner for our family. I have one brother and two sisters. I attended the CARE adopted Shahdara City District High School in Lahore. My teachers were a big
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Mubashir Iftikhar, 28, is an engineer. I grew up in Lahore, the youngest of five. My father was a medical representative at a pharmaceutical company, so at first, I received a private education. Things went upside down when my father had to leave his job due to poor health.
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Muhammad Saad Arif Sindhu, 32, is the co-founder and partner at Shamsher & Saad. One of seven children, I grew up in Shahdara Lahore, an underprivileged area in Lahore. My father worked as an Engineer Supervisor in Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL). Our financial situation was not sound. He
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Dr Amara Ilyas, 37, received a scholarship from the CARE Foundation to complete her medical qualifications. She works as an Assistant Consultant at King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Saudi Arabia. I grew up in Lahore and went to a government school – the attitude of the teachers to students was
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Fatima, 30, is a PhD student at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. I come from a large family with four sisters and two brothers. My father was a shopkeeper, while my mother was a homemaker. There were no individuals with professional careers within my immediate and extended
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Fatima Tariq, aged 26, CARE alumni and Access to English Language Program Coordinator I was brought up in a family of nine siblings. My father was the only earner. He was a building contractor, and did not earn a great deal, so we were enrolled in government schools; I
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Muhammad Umair, aged 34, is Project Lead CCE (Creativity, Culture and Education) at the CARE Foundation My father worked in a factory, and he could not afford to send me to a private school, so I went to the nearest government school – Government Boys High School Qila Lachman
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Nabeel Arshad, 28, is head of HSE Department (Health Safety & Environmental department at a chicken processing plant in Pakistan. I grew up in a very rural, old-fashioned family. My mother is a housewife, and my father grows crops and looks after the fields. There was no education. In
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As an ambitious student at the CARE 1 high school, Sana remembers the extreme lengths her mother, who used to work as a maid locally, had to go to ensure her children were offered the best education in that district. “Regardless of her hardships, my mother ensured that we
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