READ Foundation
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The Rural Education and Development (READ) Foundation is a non-profit educational network in Pakistan, founded in 19941. It operates schools and literacy centres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, the outskirts of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. READ Foundation was established in 1994 when it opened its first school in Riala, a village in the Bagh District of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, with one teacher, one classroom and 25 students1. As of 2026, the foundation operates 624 educational institutions across Pakistan, comprising 422 formal schools, 120 literacy centres, and 82 schools adopted from the Government of Punjab. According to the foundation's official social media page, this network serves approximately 135,000 students1, including 14,000 orphans; its international fundraising affiliates in the United Kingdom and United States separately report lower figures for Pakistan of around 120,000 students, 5,967 teachers, and 13,000 orphans across more than 400 schools, indicating some variation between the organisation's own published figures.
The Rural Education and Development (READ) Foundation is a non-profit educational network in Pakistan, founded in 1994. It operates schools and literacy centres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, the outskirts of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. READ Foundation was established in 1994 when it opened its first school in Riala, a village in the Bagh District of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, with one teacher, one classroom and 25 students. As of 2026, the foundation operates 624 educational institutions across Pakistan, comprising 422 formal schools, 120 literacy centres, and 82 schools adopted from the Government of Punjab. According to the foundation's official social media page, this network serves approximately 135,000 students, including 14,000 orphans; its international fundraising affiliates in the United Kingdom and United States separately report lower figures for Pakistan of around 120,000 students, 5,967 teachers, and 13,000 orphans across more than 400 schools, indicating some variation between the organisation's own published figures.
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