The Citizens Foundation (TCF) organised its 8th annual awards on Sunday evening to honour the all-female faculty across its schools.
The ceremony was organised at the KMC Stadium. Around 2,900 teachers from 440 school units in Karachi were invited. TCF representatives, donor groups and volunteers also attended the event.
Teachers were conferred achievement awards in different categories such as attendance awards, 10- and 15-year service awards and outstanding performance awards.
Showbiz personalities Atiqa Odho and Arshad Mehmood were the chief guests on the occasion. Both celebrities acknowledged and appreciated the efforts of the teachers and lauded TCF’s commitment to impart quality education to less privileged children across Pakistan.
Stressing the role of teachers in child development, Mushtaq K Chhapra, chairman and founding director of the TCF, acknowledged the hard work the teachers put in to educate young minds.
“More than 100 TCF graduates have come back to teach at TCF schools. They are a beam of hope to thousands of our female students studying in different TCF schools all over the country,” he said.
The TCF has a completely female faculty of 5,400 teachers and principals, teaching 102,000 students across 730 school units in 83 towns and cities. TCF also has a teacher training centre in Karachi and Mansehra for the ongoing training of its faculty and provides logistical support to all its teachers. About 8,000 jobs have been created in communities in which TCF operates.
Ranked amongst the top scoring organisations certified by the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy, the TCF has also received the high non-profit organisation governance rating of GR8+ by the JCR-VIS Credit Rating Co Ltd. It also received the ‘Laureate of the Qatar Foundation WISE Award 2010’ for excellence in education.
