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The Citizens Foundation and Faisal Kapadia create new note in education
Gulf Today
|October 19, 2025
The Citizens Foundation (TCF) — UAE's upcoming event on November 2, Umeed 2025 at The Agenda, Dubai, is an evening dedicated to supporting education in Pakistan. Featuring Faisal Kapadia, Hassan Raheem and Shae Gill, the event will be an evening of music, hope, and purpose.
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A classroom in a TCF school. Faisal Kapadia on stage. A student in a TCF school.
TCF was founded in 1995, and thirty years later, it stays as one of Pakistan's leading nonprofit organisations, dedicated to providing quality education to the less privileged. With more than 2,033 purpose-built schools units educating over 300,000 students, it has become a beacon of hope, transforming lives and communities. It now has chapters in seven countries, including the UAE.
The TCF Dubai event aligns with the UAE's official announcement of 2025 as the Year of Community — a national initiative aimed at strengthening social bonds and promoting meaningful engagement. Speaking about the initiative, Mushtaq Chhapra, Co-Founder of TCF, said: “In over thirty years of TCF's journey, I've seen children from some of the poorest communities of Pakistan grow up to become doctors, teachers, and leaders in their communities. All they needed was an opportunity. That's what umeed (hope) really means to me. Umeed 2025 is an opportunity to take that hope forward, to the millions of children still waiting for their chance to build a better life.”
This story is from the October 19, 2025 edition of Gulf Today.
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