Alif Ailaan is a nonprofit organization run by a small team of media and strategic communications specialists with experience from across the world, working in the field of education in Pakistan since 2013. Alif Ailaan is striving to argue and fight for every Pakistani child’s right to high quality education. Alif Ailaan ends on August 31, 2018, after over five years of campaigning on radio and television, and on social media for the right of every Pakistani child to receive a quality education. There were an average of 133 newspaper stories every month. The average number of stories per month so far in 2018 has been 1,016.
In the budget for fiscal year 2013/2014 all four provinces and the federal government allocated a total over just under Rs. 580 billion. In the fiscal year 2017/2018, total allocations increased to over Rs. 900 billion. Over four million children have been added to the school rolls across the country since 2013.