Ihsan Trust- Taking Pakistan to Road of Progress and Sustainability.

Byline: Fayyaz Ur Rehman Khan

In order to move forward and progress in the world, giving ample of opportunities to the people to prosper and contribute towards the nation building, Education plays a vital and most important role. In most of the developing countries (including Pakistan) unfortunately, education has remained on least priority list and specially Higher Education is considered a luxury, affordable by only few (blessed ones).

As Pakistan being a developing country and considered as a Third World country, it is amongst the countries in the world having a large number of people living below the poverty line. Accordingly, not only Education has been a sector not given due importance in the past, but with one of the lowest literacy rates in the world, the proportion of population acquiring higher education or even having access to higher Education is much, much lower.

In order to overcome this deficiency and to have a sustainable future, not only due importance should be given for the Education sector (particularly Higher Education) but we need to establish a need blind admission system in the whole country. This way Pakistan can be brought out of this vicious cycle of poverty leading to economic disparity.

In order to achieve this, Ihsan Trust was established with the sole purpose to assist the students financially in getting higher education in Pakistan. Starting its working in Jan 2010, Ihsan Trust has been inspired by the "Need-Blind Admissions" culture and concept in many foreign universities. Need-blind admission is a term denoting an admission policy, in which the educational institution does not consider an applicant's financial situation, when deciding admission. We decided to initiate this concept in Pakistan, where thousands of deserving candidates are discouraged to apply for higher education institutions, because of their inability to afford them. Ihsan Trust is acting as a beacon of hope for all those students.

The Mission of Ihsan Trust is to reach out and help the poor and needy in a manner that is only according to the principles of Islam, so as to take care/look after the well being of poor and needy and to encourage the socio-economic uplift of the low-income community, in order to increase the economic prosperity of the society, ultimately contributing towards the betterment of Pakistan and the Ummah.

With the arrival of Ihsan Trust and some other organizations as well in this new Millenium, Higher education...