The Foundation Open Society Institute–Pakistan’s key areas of activity are education, media, government transparency and accountability, justice and human rights, and economic policy. The largest efforts continue to be in the area of education. The office is committed to ensuring quality education for all children in Pakistan by supporting research and advocacy work by NGO coalitions, research and educational institutions, and teachers’ associations. The office supports a number of pilot projects in both rural and urban areas that bring the government and civil society groups together to improve education quality in public and private institutions, especially through projects for teacher training, early childhood education, and school governance.
Government of Sindh
The Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi
HBL
HBL was the first commercial bank to be established in Pakistan in 1947. Over the years, HBL has grown its branch network and become the largest private sector bank with over 1,500 branches and 1,000 ATMs across the country and a customer base exceeding five million relationships. With presence in 25 countries, subsidiaries in Hong Kong and the UK, affiliates in Nepal, Kenya and Kyrgyzstan and rep offices in Iran and China, HBL is also the largest domestic multinational. The Bank is expanding its presence in principal international markets including the UK, UAE, South and Central Asia, Africa and the Far East. HBL is currently rated AAA (Long term) and A-1+ (Short term) with 'Stable' outlook and has a balance sheet size of USD 13.82 billion. It is the first Pakistani bank to raise Tier II Capital from external sources.
Alif Ailaan
Alif Ailaan was founded to bring together and empower all those Pakistanis who want to respond to the country’s education emergency, and equip our children to succeed for themselves and for Pakistan.
Dubai Cares
Our Vision: To break the cycle of poverty by ensuring all children have access to quality primary education.
Dubai Cares affirms and promotes seven fundamental principles:
Leading global efforts in ensuring children’s access to quality primary education in developing countries regardless of their gender, ethnicity or religion Recognizing education as the best long-term solution to global poverty Comprehensive in scope, the philanthropic organization’s primary education programs integrate four key components: School Infrastructure; School Health & Nutrition; Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) in Schools; and Quality of Education. Approaching programs with an innovative entrepreneurial spirit Actively engaging with international aid and development agencies to implement comprehensive development programs that promote an integrated approach towards education and ensure long-term and sustainable impact Mobilizing the UAE’s corporate, business and social communities toward proactive global citizenship Working towards achieving, by 2015, the United Nations Millennium Development (UNMDG) Goals 2 and 3 of guaranteeing universal primary education and promoting gender equality, respectively. Dubai Cares is also helping forge a global partnership for development, as indicated by UN MDG 8. - See more at: http://www.dubaicares.ae/en/article/about-us/our-vision.html#sthash.hZtRX8DK.dpuf
The Sindh Education Foundation, Government of Sindh
The Sindh Education Foundation, Government of Sindh, is a semi-autonomous organization committed to educating and empowering children and communities towards social change by improving access to educational facilities. Since its establishment in 1992 as a semi-autonomous organization, the SEF endeavors have focused on bringing the light of education for the growth and development of those living in remote and disadvantaged areas of the Sindh province in Pakistan.
Initially, the Foundation began its operations with the provision of grants and loans to educational institutes and organizations. Today, we provide communities with access to educational facilities by opening schools/ educational centers across the province in partnership with individuals and/or organizations. We ensure educational quality across our diversified portfolio of programs and projects through extending professional development opportunities to multiple school stakeholders as well as by undertaking qualitative and quantitative research and monitoring to study the impact of our interventions and to identify improvement areas for enriching educational interventions at the grassroots.
SEF publishes a range of educational resources comprising magazines on Early Childhood Development for caregivers and practitioners, educational content in local languages for grass root communities, reading materials for neo-literate learners and curriculum guides and literacy manuals to enrich the process of teaching and learning in classrooms.
Today, with financial support from the Department of Education & Literacy, Government of Sindh, our portfolio has expanded to reach out to over 250,000 beneficiaries through a network of more than 2,000 schools and educational centers in the underserved areas of the province making it the largest educational foundation in Pakistan.
Oxfam
One person in three in the world lives in poverty. Oxfam is determined to change that world by mobilizing the power of people against poverty.
Around the globe, Oxfam works to find practical, innovative ways for people to lift themselves out of poverty and thrive. We save lives and help rebuild livelihoods when crisis strikes. And we campaign so that the voices of the poor influence the local and global decisions that affect them.
In all we do, Oxfam works with partner organizations and alongside vulnerable women and men to end the injustices that cause poverty.
Education Fund for Sindh
Established in 2012, EFS – Education Fund for Sindh is a not for profit company (a company set up under section 42 of the Companies Ordinance, 1984), that aims to tackle the education crisis in Pakistan. We currently focus on enabling access to education for out of school children to begin or complete their primary school education. Our Board of Directors and Organisational Leadership Team consists of individuals with a wealth of experience from the highest ranks of Pakistan’s leading national and multi-national businesses as well as social sector. Our drive is to help address the education crisis in Pakistan, and create a sustainable future for our children, our country and their progress Our vision Our dream is that every child in Pakistan has access to good quality, cost effective education. Our mission 1. We bring together and respect the skills and experience of Educators, Business People with those in the Communities we aim to serve, to explore innovative and cost effective ways of delivering accessible and sustainable education for all. 2. We operate with the rigor and governance of a big business, with the heart, passion and social agenda of educators. All of our people hold themselves up, as we do as an organisation, to public scrutiny. 3. We are focused on the delivery of results, in our first 3 years, on enabling access to quality primary education for at least 200,000 “out of school” children in the Sindh Province of Pakistan.