Standard Chartered Bank and Jaffer Brothers continue to be our largest donors and we remain eternally grateful to them for helping us support more students every year. With the grace of Allah and your generous support, 25 Rizwan Scholars graduated in 2011. We receive innumerable applications every week and shortlist all the qualifying applicants for scholarship interviews. We try very hard to support as many as we can but we are restricted by our budget. Interviews are usually held twice a year in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad with our team of mentors but on rare occasions we also interview waitlisted students outside of schedule as soon as our budget increases.

We receive many donations online as well through Give2Asia. That bucket is emptied every 3 to 4 years. This is a very secure and convenient method of donating to Riz Scholars and we highly recommend it. In other news of 2011, our scholars send us their updates regularly. Some of the highlights of 2011 are listed below.

Dr Liaqat Ali Khan, one of our graduate scholars started working on a project in 2011 titled Medicines Sans Frontiers-Belgium i.e doctors without borders. He has recently passed FCPS-1 Exam in Surgery.

Another graduate scholar, Dr. Mohammad Safdar also completed his DVM degree and is presently in Turkey getting his Master of Genetics on scholarship.

Naila Qayyum graduated with 1st position in BSc in 2011 from Lakki Marwat Girls Degree College. She achieved 447 out of 550. She continues to be a Rizwan Scholar and is now pursuing her MS in Bio Chemistry at Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad. We are very proud of our scholar and wish her every success in the future.

The proudest moment for us in 2011 was when we received an email from our graduate scholar Syed Abbas Bukhari who wrote that he was pursuing an MS in Bioinformatics at Univeristy of Illinois on full scholarship. He wanted to know the full amount of his undergraduate scholarship, which he received from us so he could donate it back to Riz Scholars. This is called paying it forward and we are extremely proud of Abbas for being the first to take that step.

It warms our hearts to know that we are able to assist these bright young Pakistanis in their educational endeavors and it is only because of your generous donations. Please don’t stop donating towards education and at tertiary level especially since that is the bridge to a better life for the students and to a brighter future of Pakistan.

Every alternate year, our admin officer Sajid Mehmood travels across Pakistan visiting as many scholars as possible at their Universities. The meetings have been very useful for both the students and the organization since it allows us to understand their circumstances better and provide further help in required areas. Personally connecting with our scholars has yielded fruitful results in the year 2010-2011 as well.

This year, Sajid has so far visited students in Lahore, Faisalabad, Taxila and Abbottabad. During the meetings, the scholars were asked to fill out the survey forms to update their status and also suggest improvement methods to the organization. The response was very positive, some students from the flood effected areas have requested an increase in their scholarship funding to cope with their bills and family circumstances. For this purpose we request you to donate generously and give Zakat so we can provide further assistance to especially the students belonging to flood effected areas. The scholars continuously express their gratitude for their scholarships by writing letters to inform us that they are whole-heartedly committed to achieving higher education and bridging the gap between poverty and professional standing in the society.

To read their letters, please visit the Thankyous Page.

As the latest accounts for the year 2010 have been posted, this year, RizScholars would like to take the opportunity to thank our top donors who have been generous with their donations on a regular basis since the inception of this organization. We currently have more than 200 graduates and that has largely been possible because of these donors. We would also like to encourage everyone else who knows about us to donate generously towards education in Pakistan.

While you are here, please also take out some time to read the thankyou letters in the THANK YOUS section. Our Scholars regularly send thank you letters and since we have collected so many, we thought maybe you would like to read some as well and see how grateful these young students are for all the help that they receive.

Here is a list of some of our top and most regular donors.

• Standard Chartered Bank
• Mrs. Samina Rizwan
• Jaffer Brothers
• Give 2 Asia
• Farid Haroon Jaffer
• Adcom Pvt Ltd.Telenor Pakistan
• Gp Capt (Retd) Munzar Ata
• Sapphire Textile Mills Ltd.
• Ms. Patricia Nance
• Mrs. Taj Imam
• Adnan Anwar Khan
• Saira Maqsood
• AVM Najam-ul-Asar
• Ather Imran Nawaz
• Asad Rasheed
• Ahsen Javaid
• Dr. Khalid J. Chowdhury
• Mr & Mrs. Humayun Pervaiz
• Mrs. Kamal Butt
• Huma Mustafa Baig
• Dr. Ayesha Farooq
• Mrs. Zainab Abbas
• Faisal Ejaz Khan
• Ali Tahir Khan

We need your encouragement and support so that many underprivileged, bright young Pakistanis can benefit from our offer and we can, together, help bring about value-based improvement in the educational system of our country. This can only be possible if your ZAKAT and SADAQA reach deserving individuals.

PLEASE DONATE GENEROUSLY through:

Zakat-al-mal : Zakat must be paid by all muslims whose net worth for the preceding year has remained above a minimal exemption called nisab. Nisab has been estimated at $1,000.

Zakat-al-fitr : Is a flat amount per household member paid by the head of the household for himself and his dependents. It is estimated at about $7 per person. It should be paid no later than Eid-ul-Fitr.

Sadaqa : Is a voluntary charity which may be made at any time. It can be any amount beyond your needs.

How to Donate

Please write all crossed cheques out to Air Cdre Rizwanullah Khan Shaheed Memorial Trust and mail them to:

House No. 11
Street No. 3
Lehtrar Road
P&V Scheme 1, Tarlai Kalan
Islamabad

You may also donate through Standard Chartered Bank’s Help Educate Pakistan campaign, or directly into our Zakat account as listed under our website section titled DONATIONS. Please identify your contribution as Zakat and you will receive a receipt accordingly.

Standard Chartered Bank has been RizScholars’ banker since our inception. In 2008, SCB launched its “Help Educate Pakistan” campaign and began to search for credible organizations across the country whose purpose would align well with the program’s objectives and whose performance in terms of governance, program delivery and financial management was of the highest standard and well documented. Thus, SCB selected 3 highly credible not for profit organizations involved in education, one of them being RizScholars. We are grateful to SCB for including us in the Help Educate Pakistan program which finances some of our efforts towards scholarships for deserving students. Through this program, we initiated a campaign to select candidates from violence stricken areas such as Swat, Dir, Matta etc. We report the progress of our SCB Scholars on a regular basis to SCB and hope to continue our collaboration with SCB for years to come.