KEF is providing high quality liberal education to the children especially female students of underprivileged sections of the society’s untapped population of Azad Kashmir & Pakistan. KEF is a non profit, non political NGO that has to sustain its efforts through donors. . KEF was founded in 1994 and has now three schools and a Teacher Training Institute, as Centres of Excellence. It is registered as a charity in U.K. (No. 1082299), USA (No. 30-0047316) and Pakistan and exempted from income tax. KEF is also affiliated/supported by:

UK’s Voluntary Service Overseas http://www.vso.org.uk

Bahria University, Islamabad http://www.bahria.edu.pk

Gloucestershire University, UK http://www.glos.ac.uk/

Australian Volunteers International http://www.australianvolunteers.com

Infaq Foundation

Pharmagen Limited http://www.pharmagen.com.pk

Intel Corporation http://www.intel.com

Valentines High School, UK http://www.valentines-sch.org.uk/

Acklam Grange School, UK http://www.acklamgrange.org.uk/

International Education Fund http://www.iefund.org.uk/

KEF has been awarded the seal of NPO Good Practices by Pakistan Centre of Philanthropy (PCP) (http://www.pcp.org.pk/resources.html#NPO Profiles).  The organisations certified by PCP conform to internationally accepted best practices in internal governance, programme delivery and financial management. Out of over 60,000 NGOs in Pakistan, KEF was amongst first 45 to be certified by PCP.KEF realised that quality education can only be provided if we have quality English medium teachers for which KEF set up a purpose built Institute of Teacher Education (ITE) in a village Basali near Rawalpindi, ITE trains rural graduate females for 12-18 months to obtain a diploma that is now affiliated with Bahria University. During the tragic earthquake of 2005, KEF assisted the nation by providing one of the best relief shelter programs and lately channeled funds by a friend for a destroyed dispensary that has now been converted to a hospital. UNDP, IOM, and Government of Norway supported KEF in its relief efforts for its transparency.