READ Foundation is registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) as a not-for-profit company under the Companies Ordinance, 1984. It has Tax Exemption Status with the Central Board of Revenue (CBR). READ Foundation is certified by the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP) based on three key parameters: Governance, Financial practices and Program Delivery.
Presently, READ Foundation is the largest indigenous educational NGO of rural Pakistan. It fully focuses in the field of education and has made unprecedented progress both in terms of the number of students and teachers as well as the quality of its work for the past 12 years.
READ Foundation having an enrolment of over 60,000 children in its 323 schools provides high-quality, cost-effective and sustainable education programs with significant gender parity. READ also provides free education to over 5,800 orphan children. Superior education is supported through teacher training, improvement of the buildings & facilities, and development of locally relevant and appropriate materials. It has trained 2,450 teachers who currently impart education to the children in READ schools. So far, READ Foundation has conducted 455 training workshops for its schoolteachers and supervisory staff, each having 25 participants on average.