Brief Overview

Ta’aluq Foundation is a non-profit organization working to improve the lives of underserved communities in Pakistan through integrated interventions across four core pillars: health, education, community empowerment, and environmental sustainability. Established in 2016, the foundation focuses on building long-term, community-based solutions that reduce poverty and improve access to essential services.

The organization operates permanent facilities including a free school system and healthcare clinic in Sindh, serving vulnerable families who are often excluded from both private and public services. In addition to its permanent infrastructure, Ta’aluq Foundation organizes free medical camps, ration drives, livelihood support programs, and environmental plantation initiatives to strengthen community wellbeing and resilience.

Its operations are guided by verified institutional standards, including registration under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860, certification by the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP), annual audits, authorization from the Education and Literacy Department of Sindh, and adherence to Shariah compliance measures.

Core Programs and Services

Ta’aluq Foundation runs five active programmes across four core pillars, with two future projects in planning.

• Surraya School System — A free school in Sindh. Over 1k+ children enrolled to date, with free books, uniforms, stationery, and daily meals. Curriculum combines mainstream academics with foundational IT training and evening Islamic learning (Nazra, Hadith, Tajweed, Hifz).
• Surraya Healthcare — A free OPD clinic in Shah Faisal Colony serving 100+ patients daily, with over 20K+ patients treated to date. Services include consultations, free medicines, lab tests, and ultrasound. The clinic also runs free medical camps and has funded 54 cataract surgeries to date.
• Community Empowerment — Ramadan ration drives, Eid gifts, Qurbani meat distribution, winter packages, and livelihood support (vegetable carts, sewing machines, food stalls) that turn relief into income for low income households.
• Environment — Plantation drives across schools and community spaces, with student-led environmental clubs running awareness and clean-up campaigns. Over 400 trees planted to date.

What Makes Our Approach Distinct

Ta’aluq runs an integrated model across four pillars (health, education, community, environment), anchored in permanent infrastructure rather than one off events. The foundation operates its own free school and free clinic in the most underserved urban areas of Sindh province, and has partnered with major Pakistani hospitals on clinical training for young volunteers. Community programmes deliberately shift families from receiving aid to earning income, through vegetable carts, sewing machines, and food stalls. The result is a locally embedded safety net that compounds across nine years of presence in the same communities, moving them from charity to entrepreneurship.

Impact Stories

AB is 4 years old. Her father works as a daily wage labourer in Karachi. His income covers food some weeks, rarely both food and school. For AB, that meant no early years education, no daily meal outside the home, and an entry into school at age 6 or 7 already behind paying peers.
Surraya School System enrolled AB at the start of this academic year. Books, uniform, stationery, and a daily meal are all provided. Her father pays nothing.
Six months in, AB is reading her first words, learning numbers, and arriving on time every day. The daily meal has eased food pressure at home, which means her father can take work further from the house without worrying about her. She is now on track to start class one with the same readiness as any private school child in the city.