Friends of The Citizens Foundation (FTCF) is a UK registered charity that raises funds for The Citizens Foundation (TCF); Pakistan's leading non-profit education charity. Since its inception in 1995, TCF has built 600 purpose-built school units nationwide in which it provides formal quality education to 80,000 children regardless of ethnicity, gender, caste or religion. Our 4,150 female teachers ensure 50% of all children enrolled are girls. "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." - William Dalrymple, Historian and Author.