Professional Education Foundation (PEF) has been established by a group of highly successful executives in their field, to offer equal opportunities to the academically qualified but under privileged students. Foundation's main objective is to alleviate poverty by providing financial assistance to the deserving students whose dream of getting professional education remains elusive due to lack of financial resources.
Scope
Funding will be provided to students getting admission in government run institutions all over Pakistan. PEF will support students for bachelors degree in the following disciplines:
Engineering
Medicine & Surgery
Agriculture
Business Management
Eligibility
Applicant should be able to get admission to one of the Government run professional university of college on his/her own merit.
Applicant should be able to prove that he/she is not in a position to fund the education
PEF NEWS
* Dilnaz Avari and Muhammad Umer Elahi Farooqui prominent social workers join the executive team of PEF.
* Second Meet & Great event held in Karachi 7th January 2012 at Sheraton Hotel. Next event is scheduled for 12th April 2012 at Lahore.
* To facilitate contributions from out side Pakistan, Professional Education Foundation recently got registered with Give2 Asia. G2A is a non profit organization founded in U.S. to promote philanthropy projects in Asia and is tax exempt under US law. Website www.give2asia.org
* A Video Documentary highlighting the vision, mission and activities of the foundation has been launched. It is available on web link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Fzi-Pf5qA
* Starting in 2009, with seed funding from its founding members, PEF provided financial aid to 70 students in its very first year of operations. In academic year 2010-2011, its enrollment has reached 170 students. For Academic year 2011-2012, with continued contributions from our supporters, we plan to reach enrolment level of 300 students