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TCF is a non profit organisation set up in 1995 by six businessmen to provide education to street children and children of slum and impoverished areas at heavily subsidised prices. To date TCF has built 600 schools and has an enrolment of 80,000 students. It is a registered charity in many countries around the world like UK, Canada, UAE and enjoys the patronage of Pakistanis and non-Pakistanis alike. TCF prides itself in providing quality education to its students and has had many success stories.
In 2002 a TCF student won first prize in a Unilever-sponsored nationwide art competition. The competition included some of the most elite schools in Pakistan. TCF student's artwork and the first prize winners of 33 other countries were then judged by an international panel and TCF student's work came first again, worldwide. The artwork was hung in London's prestigious art gallery, Tate Modern for a month. And this was from the son of an uneducated street cobbler.
Internationally renowned author and historian, William Dalrymple after visiting a TCF school in Pakistan said, "The quality of teaching provided, in many cases, equals that of Pakistan's smartest private schools. Yet the children who enrol are from the very poorest and most deprived families."
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