The Citizens Foundation (UK)

Who we are

The Citizens Foundation (UK) is a UK registered charity that supports the education of underprivileged children in Pakistan. It achieves this by raising funds and awareness to support the education programmes of The Citizens Foundation, Pakistan’s leading education charity. Since 1995, TCF has been providing life-changing education through purpose-built schools in the heart of Pakistan’s urban and rural slums. Today, TCF runs “perhaps the largest network of independently run schools in the world” (The Economist). With an all-female faculty, TCF is also the largest private employer of women in Pakistan.

Our culture and values

We are a small team of passionate individuals driven by the need to provide quality education opportunities to the over 26 million children out of school in Pakistan. Our vision is to remove barriers of class and privilege to make the citizens of Pakistan agents of positive change with a mission to enable moral, spiritual and intellectual enlightenment through quality education. To do this, we focus on our core values of sincerity, service, and positive conduct. 

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. We always strive to be fair and objective in our advice and actions, and we are never influenced in our decisions, actions or recommendations by issues of gender, race, creed, colour, age or personal disability.