Regardless of socio-economic background — and from the very first classroom they walk into.
We work alongside parents, employers, and government — because a child's future is built by the whole community, not just a school.
In 2021, walking through the alleys of Allahwala Town in Korangi, our co-founders kept seeing the same scene — children, often as young as six, working in scrap yards or wandering the streets during school hours.
The math was simple and brutal. Government schools were over-capacity, frequently shut, and out of reach for the poorest families. The few private options that did exist charged fees no daily-wage household could afford. So thousands of children — most of them girls — simply didn't go.
SkillUp Valley was founded with a deliberately unfashionable proposition: that the answer wasn't another awareness campaign or a one-off charity drive. The answer was a school. A real school. A good one. One that families could actually afford and one that prepared children for the economy that exists, not the one that used to.
Five years later, we operate two campuses serving more than 1,250 students from nursery through Grade 10. We've enrolled over 2,000 children on need-based scholarships. We've deployed more than PKR 22 million directly into the community. And we've barely begun.
Our next chapter is bigger: a STEM & Robotics Lab, a fully equipped Computer Lab, expanded Science labs, and an after-school employability program — turning our campuses into pipelines for the engineers, technicians, and skilled workers Pakistan urgently needs.
See where we're headed →Co-founded by Ali Nisar and Seema Ali. First cohort: 180 students, six classrooms, one shared mission.
Responding to demand from a second underserved neighborhood. 350 students enrolled in the first year.
Combined enrollment crosses 1,000 — with 52% female enrollment, well above the regional average.
Over 2,000 cumulative scholarship enrollments. Audited financials published for the first time.
Computer Lab pilot at Allahwala Town. Partnership conversations with corporate and multilateral donors.
Robotics & Automation Lab. Full Science Lab. After-school employability programs. Third campus on the horizon.
Ali brings the financial rigor, governance discipline, and international compliance expertise that SkillUp Valley's institutional partners require. He oversees finance, audit, and donor relations.
Seema brings 10+ years of grassroots experience in school operations, community programming, and child development. She leads day-to-day school operations and the program design across both campuses.
We believe in being upfront about how we operate — especially with institutional partners.
SkillUp Valley is registered as a non-profit / non-governmental organization, allowing US-based donors and institutions to contribute under standard non-profit frameworks.
SkillUp Valley operates as a private entity registered with the Sindh Revenue Board (SRB) and the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR). Pakistan has effectively halted new NGO registration for several years, making this the only viable legal vehicle for new social enterprises.
Independent annual audits covering all program funds. Full financial statements and utilization reports available to institutional partners on request — no exceptions, no carve-outs.
For program funding, we work on tranched disbursement against verified milestones — minimizing donor risk and ensuring every rupee is tied to measurable progress.
Our mission, governance, financial controls, and use of funds are entirely social and non-profit in nature. Every shilling raised is deployed into programs, infrastructure, and student support — with full audited transparency available to all institutional partners.
We invite institutional partners, corporate CSR teams, and serious individual donors to visit Allahwala Town or Mehran Town in person. Audited records and program access provided on request.
