“Quality 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 them a stipend.

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 paid stipend 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 upon 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 three year span commencing from kindergarten (KG) level and finishing at class five levels. 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:

One month of basic education for one child: US$ 30
One year of basic education for one child: US$ 360
Make one child literate (3 years of education): US$ 1080
Sponsor an entire school for one month: US$ 1,667
Sponsor an entire school for one year: US$ 20,000