“Education is every citizen’s right.”
(Shehzad Roy)


Zindagi Trust (ZT) aims at reaching out to the working children of the nation and provides them basic functional literacy at the doorstep of their work place and residences and supplements their earnings by providing monetary reward to successful graduates.

It endeavours to achieve the above through implementation of a unique concept called “I am Paid to Learn”, wherein a group of eighty to hundred children working in a certain neighbourhood are brought to a Government or a private school rented in the afternoon and literacy is provided to these working children for five days a week.

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Zindagi Trust pays monetary reward on graduation to students for the time taken out of their work routines and coming to ZT school to acquire some basic education, life skills and ethics which are generally lacking in their family lives. This also provides them a motivation to continue their formal education once some literacy has been imparted to them by the ZT Schools. Presently, ZT supports over 2800 students studying in schools operating in Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi.

Students are provided education in a twenty six months span commencing from kindergarten (KG) level and finishing at class five level. They are provided education of English, Urdu, Social Studies, Islamiat, Mathematics, Science and Computers. Teachers are trained every year on current methodology of teaching/learning, whereby they are motivated to move away from typical rote memorization and encourage children to learn through conduct of interactive sessions. Students are appraised on a regular basis and minimal dependency is kept on the end of term examination with a view to ultimately do away with the end of term examination.

I am Paid to Learn Campaign

In a country like Pakistan education is a privilege, not a basic right. Help the underprivileged children of Zindagi Trust by supporting the campaigns below:

Cost of I am Paid to Learn  
One month of basic education for one child:

US$ 6.5

One Session (4 months) of basic education for one child: US$ 26
One year of basic education for one child: US $ 78
One month basic education for class of 20 children: US$ 130
Make one child literate (2.2 years of basic education): US $169
Sponsor an entire school of 100 children for one month: US$ 650
Sponsor an entire school of 100 children for one session (4 months): US$ 2600
Sponsor an entire school of 100 children for one year: US$ 7800