Education For All
Our alumni are testament to the hard work and dedication of the CARE Foundation. In response to a failing educational system in Pakistan, along with the lack of opportunities for students, we took on the responsibility to create a positive change.
The CARE Foundation has impacted on the lives of thousands of students, in the face of dire disadvantage.It has raised the standards of education nationwide, setting the stage for growth. Below are a few of our successes from over the years.
“CARE introduced the world to us.”
CARE Foundation alumni, Hashim Malik
Muhammad Umair is a CARE alumnus currently working as a Project Lead – CCE at CARE Foundation. Through his experiences with the CARE Foundation, Umair has harnessed his talents and grown into a driven and competent individual.
“Growing up in a low-income household, accessing good education was a major challenge. Millions of Pakistani children do not attend school, and those that do must deal with absent teachers and poor learning environments; I was one of them and I knew from a young age that I wanted a different life…..
CARE alumni Dr Farah Azam hopes to one day open up her own hospital in Shahdara, Lahore. The young doctor works at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. The eldest of five siblings, Azam grew up in Shahdara. Having completed her schooling at a CARE Foundation school in the area, she knew she wanted to make a career in the medical field.
“I just knew that I wanted to be a doctor for the rest of my life,” she says, “There are no doctors in my family, and for some reason, it used to give me a bit of an inferiority complex. That’s when I decided I had to get out of the career comfort zone that I saw so many of my family members stuck in.”
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 received a top-quality education.”
The CARE 1 schools allowed deserving students to receive quality education even though they couldn’t afford it.
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 family...Read more
CARE Graduate Widat Khawar Won First Place in an Oil Painting competition at the Express Education & Career Expo A graduate in Textile Design from Lahore College for Women University Working as Assistant Coordinator Creativity, Culture and Education
CARE Adopted CDG Girls High School Islampura, Shahdara, Lahore Shortlisted for a CARE Scholarship Enrolled in Pre-Engineering at Kinnaird College for Women University in Lahore
CARE Adopted Government Pak Standard Girls High School, Shadbagh, Lahore. Secured third position in BISE Lahore Annual Matriculation Board Exams (Humanities Group)
CARE graduate Studied Software Engineering at the University of Electrical Engineering Taxila with the help of a Care Scholarship
CARE adopted Government G.H.S, Wassanpura School Enrolled in the acclaimed Punjab College for Women
CARE alumnus who secured third position in Computer Studies in his intermediate examinations at the Lahore Board Pursuing a degree at the Punjab University of Information Technology Plans to be a software engineer
Tanveer Ahmed, a former CARE student from City District Government Boys High School in Township, Lahore, is currently an English Lecturer at the Punjab Group of Colleges.
CARE Adopted City District Government Islah-e-Moashra Boys High School alumni.
Attended the CARE Access to English programme at Government Islamia High School Sheranwala Gate, Lahore Completed his Bachelor’s with first class honours from Oxford Brookes University, England Secured a job at a global shipping company as an Account Executive in the company’s Somalia-based office