PAKISTAN

Alumni Development
Programme
About 70% of students completing their Matriculation from
TCF schools go on to pursue intermediate level education and
25% of these get enrolled into tertiary level programs.
Over a period of time, TCF has identified specific areas of
improvement (such as English language skills, Mathematics
and broader personality development) where greater support
and preparation could enable these TCF alumni not only to
secure admission into higher quality programmes but also in
their lives beyond intermediate and tertiary level studies. This
realization led the Alumni Department to develop its new
‘Alumni Development Programme’ (ADP).
This year, the Community Development Unit (CDU) worked to
integrate the Aagahi programme into TCF’s School
Management System (SMS). The IT platform was used for
coordination and reporting of on-ground activities. Various
new initiatives were introduced to improve programme
outcomes, such as learner attendance reporting by Aagahi
teachers via mobile messages. During the year, 649 literacy
classes were conducted, through which 10,157 learners were
successfully made literate. This will bring the total number of
Aagahi learners to over 43,000 women in 2015.
Clean Drinking Water Project
The aim of the programme is to improve academic skills,
develop problem solving and critical thinking capabilities and
build self-confidence in the students. The sessions also
introduce students to academic programmes and scholarship
opportunities being offered by various universities in Pakistan
and abroad. A pilot programme was conducted in July 2014
in Karachi with 10 volunteers (university students) and 80 TCF
students over a period of three weeks.
Based on the encouraging results of this pilot, the ADP is
being rolled out this year in Karachi with 90 volunteers and
800 students across 30 TCF school locations, while pilots are
taking place in Lahore and Rawalpindi schools.
Aagahi Urdu Adult
Literacy Programme
Initiated in 2005, the Aagahi Urdu Adult Literacy Programme
focuses on building the functional literacy skills of illiterate
members of the TCF community (primarily women). After
completion of the 3 month literacy course, an individual is
able to read a newspaper, write a letter, and do basic
arithmetic for household budgeting and buying or selling
goods in a marketplace.
The shortage of clean drinking water continues to be a
significant problem affecting health and quality of life in
countless communities across Pakistan. TCF’s Community
Development Unit (CDU) has been exploring various ways of
providing clean drinking water to the communities around TCF
schools, particularly in areas where water is brackish and not fit
for human consumption.
With the help of its partners, Community Advisory Welfare
Services (CAWS) and So Safe Pakistan, CDU was able to set
up 6 additional water filtration plants during the year, taking
the total number of plants installed in TCF school locations to
14. Of these, 5 are Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants installed in
areas where the main water source is brackish ground water.
CDU aims to establish 10 - 15 water filtration plants on an
annual basis with the help of its partners and the involvement
of the TCF Operations Department.
Significant progress has also been made during the year in
streamlining maintenance processes, improving the service
delivery model by chalking out key performance indicators for
plant running, identification of new partners and shortlisting of
new plant locations based on supply-demand conditions in all
four provinces. CDU is also simultaneously researching
purification technologies and alternative service delivery
channels to make clean water a reality across as many TCF
communities as possible.
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