BUNYAD was formed & registered in 1994. Its primary focus is literacy & non formal Education of the underprivileged groups like child labour, girl, children & young women the rural areas but it work with public sector schools as well. Since the problems of development are multidimensional & interrelated. Bunyad’s approach is multi-sectoral wherein literacy/education programmes are linked up with Health, Micro Credit, Skill Training. believes in working in partnerships with local communities, district/provincial and federal governments. Its partners also include BERTIs community

based organization (CBOs), NGOs functioning at various level from local to international and philanthropists, the work of the current area of Bunyad Operations and the work of its partnerships extend across Lahore, Hafizabad, Sheikhupura, Sialkot, Sargodha, Mandi Bahaud Din, Multan, Bahawalpur, Liyah, MuzafarGarh, Khanawal, Sahiwal, Rawalpindi, Khushab, Baluchistan (Pishin) and Jammu and Kashmir (Bagh)

Mission of BUNYAD

• Aim to Promote EFA & Community Development
• To focus on the 20% Children who are not School
• To give a chance to the many drop-outs to re-enter learning
• To motivate drop-outs to come back into the education
• To make Adolescent girls become functional literate
• To create an atmosphere that all must learn to read & write, especially Girls & the marginalized, especially rural families
• To mobilize Community to fight abject poverty by becoming literate, as the first step to change
• To ensure that steps are in place that the Learners have options for next level of learning & skill's to improve their standard of life
• To encourage the communities, especially women, to continue the process of development with learning, Health, Micro-Credit, Skill Development, to move out of abject poverty with a vision of social justice, equity and tolerance.