MSF School, Alkaram Textile Campus in remote mountain valleys of Neelum powering “Out Of School Children of far-flung rural mountain areas” supported especially for Girl Child Education with 53% female students.
پڑھے گی بیٹی، بڑھے گا پاکستان۔
The journey of Million Smiles for all always.
Covering 25 Valleys across Neelum, two Valleys of Jehlum (AJK).
Their plan is to start five new schools by the end of 2024. Insha’Allah!
This is the MSF School – DIB powered campus.
This is the 32nd School (free of cost education for children of remote mountain valleys).
There are two more schools for adoption, and any collaborations with more corporations would be welcome.
You can reach them for further details and share your Smiles with the underprivileged.
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Zeeshan and his wife, upon returning from New York, started this initiative and worked on education of Out Of School Children of remote mountain valleys of north and Line Of Control bordering Indian LOC.
In the words of Zeeshan,” We have 30 plus schools now supporting 6,000 plus children (47% female students) and 290 plus teachers (87% females) being supported monthly.
They are successfully running two organisations…
– Million Smiles Trainings and its CSR platform
– Million Smiles Foundation.
All schools and relief work come under the Million Smiles Foundation.
They have adopted 1,000 families of Gaza and Rafah this Ramadan and will be sending Ration support / Food supplies / Water via our Egypt CSR partners to Gaza and Rafah in next week.
Highly commendable efforts for Gaza and Rafah (Palestine) families, one must accept.
Taking a sneak peak into the life and career of Zeeshan, who has worked globally in Manhattan, Saudia, England, Canada, and the USA and moved back to Pakistan to lead corporate transformation of business entities.
He is currently the
– Chairman of “Cordoba Logistics & Ventures”
– Director NETSOL Tech
Group Director at Sadaqat Textile (amongst Top 10 exporters of Pakistan)
– Director at Investor Lounge
– Director Cotton Candy (formerly Mothercare)
Vice Chair, Million Smiles Foundation
– Advisor to leading local groups on strategy, startups, and business transformation. He also sits on several boards of startups.
He has formerly been the
– former CEO of Peshawar Zalmi
– Global CEO, SAF (managing 11 countries for CSR projects)
– former President TECH Pakistan
– former Group Executive Director Stylo Group
– former ED Arif Habib Corp.
– former MD investment banking at AHL and
– former Associate Director with KPMG and have majorly worked in Manhattan, New York clients on Citi Corp, Bank of New York, Mellon Corp, Nordea Investments, ING Financials and several Leading names of Wall Street and
– KPMG Saudia with Pepsi, SADAFCO, Riyad Bank, Bank Al Rajhi.
He has been advisor to various leading groups:
– Advisor to JS Global Capital
– Advisor at Sufi Steel Industries
– Advisor to Board of CCL Pharma
– Advisor to Excel Engineering
– Advisor to DH Foundation
He has previously held various roles in the industry as a Director on boards of:
– Arif Habib Limited
– Crescent Textile Mills Ltd.
– Safe Mix Concrete Limited
Reliance Sacks (a Fatima Group Company)
– Serendib Stock Brokers in Sri Lanka
He has been part of various audit and advisory committees of companies, including
– Power Cement Ltd.
– Aisha Steel Ltd.
– Sachal Energy (Wind Power)
– Javedan Corp (“Naya Nazimabad Real Estate Project”)
Zeshan is also the Founding President* of C100 Think Tank (a SECP registered Think Tank), which advocates Policy making and regularly does online sessions with TOP CEOs of Pakistan.
He has given Corporate talks and lectures on developmental areas focusing on Humanitarian work Globally, in Japan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, South Africa, Qatar, Bahrain, UK, Canada and USA.
Adding another feather in his cap of achievements is, that Zeeshan and his wife and I now donate 1/3 of our time for CSR work via Million Smiles Foundation focusing on Education and Relief efforts.
Plus advocacy of “Relationships & Family Values” under our initiative of The Corporate Couple where we do Free sessions for families on Marriage, Parenting, and Family Counseling.